"Nasansa Endures" came about as a result of my life long interest in lost world stories, everything from Conan Doyle's classic "The Lost World" to the recent sequel "Dinosaur Summer" by Michael Crichton to the latter's two Jurassic Park novels, which became block-busting movies, as I'm sure everyone is aware.
I'm also a great admirer of the works of Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote so many fascinating lost world novels of their own.
In addition to this I have a great interest in factual books on dinosaurs and paleontology. I'm also interested in Africa; not so much the Africa of today but the mysterious Dark Continent of yesteryear. I'm particularly fascinated by the accounts of those courageous white explorers who first penetrated Africa's wilds at great risk to their own lives.
In Nasansa Endures (Nasansa being the name of my own lost world) my interests in all of these elements have come together, and I've had great pleasure in chronicling the fictional adventures of fugitives Roger Haines and Masina, the African heroine of this work.