What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Mists of Dawn
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SOLVED. Juvenile SF from 50s or 60s. Boy accidentally travels to prehistoric past [s]
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May 04, 2012 08:59PM
This is the first SF book I remember reading sometime back in the mid to late 60s. A man builds a time machine and is going to travel to medieval (?) times maybe with a boy (son or nephew). Someone 'spins the dial' and boy accidentally travels to prehistoric times and grows up with cave people. Before accident male adult makes a point about the time machine being able to travel in time but not space.
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I don't think that's it. In my admitedly vague 40+ yr old memories only the boy travels back in time. I think he stays in the past quite a while (years?) and changes quite a bit.I have no idea what the cover might have looked like, but I checked it out of the library so it was probably a hard back.
That rings a very faint bell - I'll keep thinking.
(bump)I remember that the adult and the boy were originally planning to go to medieval France and (maybe) spent some time learning the language.
That's very familiar...was there a prehistoric creature boy ran into that clambered up vertical walls and came back with? Was a team later sent to retrieve him? Was the France destination Agincourt during crusades or in time of Charlemagne or Roland?*ack* I can remember to bug you with those questions but a handful of books I remember with the France, time travel, prehistoric and stranded kids threads are giving me trouble remembering the title ven though some plots and characters are clear.
Lots of good questions for which I have few answers. I don't think a team was sent to retrieve him, and I think he came back alone (but I'm less sure of that). (view spoiler)
I was likely only 10 or 12 when I read it and wouldn't have known about either Agincourt or Charlemagne. There may have been a specific year mentioned (no idea what it might have been) or I might be confusing that with other time travel story.
I read it a long time and hundreds of SF books ago...
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Oh my. I think that's it. Thank you very much. By an odd coincidence, I recently bought a couple of books by Chad Oliver at a used book store. Read one and enjoyed it, so he's on my watch list...
