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She and Allan

Author
H. Rider Haggard
Series
African Library
Language
English
Length
286 pages
ISBN
9781909904866
Published
15 November 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Adventure
  • Lost city
  • Immortality
  • Love
  • Supernatural
  • British colonists
  • African interior
  • Perilous journey
  • Hostile tribes
  • Treacherous terrain

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Description

Allan Quatermain toward Kôr, Umslopogaas at his side, Ayesha’s long game still burning. Haggard’s She and Allan crosses the Quatermain trail with the immortal queen — lost city, Zulu steel, a rescue that is also a temptation. Empire adventure at full heat. Two myth-lines collide: the hunter who always comes back, the woman who does not die. Haggard piling lost-race furniture — caves, oaths, a queen’s will — and still making it move. Umslopogaas’s axe beside Ayesha’s will — two myths, one heat.

Author

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) gave English literature its great African quest novels — stories of treasure, immortality, and the lure of the unknown that helped invent popular adventure as a global form. King Solomon's Mines turned a hunt for diamonds into a myth of courage and discovery; She made the lost city of Kôr a stage for desire, power, and the terror of living forever.

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