[spankalib]

Haggard, of course, was also influential on generations of writers who followed him, including Ian Fleming, John Buchan and his creation Richard Hannay, and Graham Greene, who rated King Solomon’s Mines ‘a good deal higher than Treasure Island’.

I'd bet the farm that one other writer he influenced was Edgar Rice Burroughs.

[rxh4n1]

“I’d bet the farm that one other writer he influenced was Edgar Rice Burroughs.”

And I’d make the same bet on Arthur Conan Doyle and “The Lost World”.