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John Still (author)
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John Still (1880 – 9 September 1941) was a British archaeologist and author, known for his discoveries at Sigiriya and his book The Jungle Tide.
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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
"Wild Beasts and Buried Cities", in Blackwood's Magazine (September 1929), p. 320. Collected in The Jungle Tide (London: W. Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1930), ch. 5
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