H. Rider Haggard

After witnessing Ayesha's dramatic demise, Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have not given up their hope of seeing her again, following her dying promise that she would return. Sixteen years later and still haunted by her presence, they learn from a vision that She has been reincarnated and set off on a dangerous journey through unchartered lands,...

Touted by its 1885 publisher as the most amazing story ever written, King Solomons Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggards thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, though: As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction,...

A History of AdventureA runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggards She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from Freud and Jung to...

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A thrilling search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered King Solomon's Mines 'the most amazing book ever written.'...