The Mountains Of The Moon

A place where the flowers grow twenty-three feet tall, and all the animals are bigger than their counterparts in other regions. Or so says Willard Price in Elephant Adventure, one of the rather fun, and at times quite barking mad "Adventure" series, about Hal and Roger Hunt. It's supposedly a real region of Africa, though, first mentioned by a chap named Diogenes (not that one). Can't find a date for this particular Diogenes, but Ptolemy mentions him, and he lived from 90AD - 168AD. Which doesn't really help. And yes, there is a reason for this somewhat jumbled history and geography lesson. I've been reading a book called The Meadows Of Gold, by Mas'Udi, and he mentions the Mountains Of The Moon, which made me think of dear old Willard Price; so I started researching. And crikey, what a lot of argument.

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