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[Anynameyouwish]

Hi, I've been trying to remember a book I read a lifetime ago.

Some kind of immortal man travels to the past, storing knowledge and artefacts for someone to find in the present.

TIA

 

[Pyan]

Hi, ANYW
This is rather vague: can you have a look at this thread, and add anything that might help, please?
Thanks

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[Anynameyouwish]

I'd guess it was published pre 70s. Somehow a man figured out how to live an extremely long life barring accidents or murder. He and someone in the present picked a likely spot for a cache.
I don't think it was a long story.
I really can't remember anything else.

Thanks in Advance

 

[tachyon]

This sounded similar to a previous post in this forum so I searched for "immortal" and came up with

Looking for story of people who live for hundreds of years in our midst

Plot: male protagonist realizes he isn't aging, leaves wife and kids and moves on because townspeople are getting suspicious, he eventually finds another male long lived who he befrends and travels with as he starts and ends new lives and familes, eventually finds a female long lived person. He...

www.sffchronicles.com

Several suggested books in that thread but not all are pre-1970

Anton York, Immortal, Binder
The Immortals, Gunn
This Immortal, Zelazny

Are from pre-1970.

The Boat of a Million Years, Anderson - 1989

The last reply in that thread links to a goodreads list of more book on the topic of immortality.

 

[Richiehead]

Defintely NOT This Immortal

 

[Snicklefritz]

Sounds like a squirrel I know