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Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard - Audio book performed by John Richmond - Unabridged Fiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC - 8.5 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (September 2001)

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This great novel of African adventure continues to be a favorite among those who love a thrilling tale. Perhaps the reason for its enduring appeal is that it is a story filled with qualities close to the human heart: adventure, discovery, desire for immortality, terror, search for the primitive. As Kipling said of Haggard's work, "It goes, and it grips, and it moves with all the freshness of youth." Haggard had lived for years among primitive peoples in Africa, and his knowledge of the Dark Continent was matched by few men. Yet beyond his personal knowledge of Africa, his experience of savage life and wild lands, and his ability to make us believe impossible tales, lies a feeling of the supernatural. Adventure was not enough for Haggard. As he said, "The thing must have a heart; mere adventures are not enough-I can turn them out by the peck."

Haggard's novels have been called romance. And they have been called excitingly alive and imaginative by almost everyone who has ever picked up a volume.

About the Author: Sir Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, the eighth child of William Haggard, a squire, and Ella Haggard, an amateur author. His father, who saw him as the family dunce, sent him to private schools, rather than the public schools his brothers had attended. In 1875, after failing the army entrance exam, Haggard went to Natal as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer. He returned to England in 1881, but his six years in South Africa influenced both his politics and his imagination for the rest of his life. He immediately began to read law, and was called to the bar in 1885, but the success of his first novels established him, instead, as a member of the literary scene.