When you have a big decision to make, it’s vital to weigh up the possibilities. But don’t forget also to weigh the impossibilities. This truth is well illustrated by the cautionary tale of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s decision heavily to invest in a “wildly financed and extravagantly handled” scheme to launch Kent as a leading […]
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The villainy of camels: Arthur Conan Doyle’s dislike for the ships of the desert
Could you trust a camel? Would you trust a camel? Should you trust a camel? Sherlock Holmes creator, eminent Victorian and somewhat eccentric gent Arthur Conan Doyle was most definitely not taken with camels. Camels: “Demoniacal”?Conan Doyle laid bare his views on camels in an article for the Westminster Gazette on 20 April 1896, entitled […]
