King Solomon and the Showman

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Adam Cruise. King Solomon and the Showman

Author’s Notes & Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

References

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Adam Cruise

More so, it was the giants of African literature – writers of both fiction and non-fiction – that inspired my own desire, or rather obsession, to find the Kalahari’s Lost City. Alan Paton’s posthumously published Lost City of the Kalahari, an erudite travelogue of his own experience trying to unearth the mythical legend, was the ignition that sparked the great pyre of inflammable Lost City tinder piled up over my own lifetime. As a boy I lapped up Henry Rider Haggard’s African adventures of Allan Quatermain and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan. Later came Wilbur Smith’s fictional account of the Kalahari’s Lost City, The Sunbird, based upon real events and theories of the searchers themselves while the non-fictional accounts in Lawrence Green’s South African travel tales and Herman Charles Bosman’s short-story satire subliminally inspired my own dozen or so wide-eyed forays into the heart of the subcontinent.

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Left by man to decay and rot.

Rude sculptured blocks from the red sand project,

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