코난 이 책을 쓰게 된 동기 중 하나가 어렸을 때 배웠으면 좋겠다고 생각했던 내용이라고 서문에 쓰셨죠? 이굴든 네. 많은 부분이 어렸을 때 했던 일들에서 비롯된 것이죠.

CONAN And you write in the introduction that one of your motives for writing this book is this was stuff that you had hoped youd learned as a boy? Mr. IGGULDEN Yes. An awful lot of it, you know, came from things we did as kids, first of all.