She: A History of Adventure
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1522634185 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A great read for those with imagination" according to Kindle Customer. My husband recommended this book to hopefully change my opinion of Haggard. Opinion changed! I blame it on retirement. When younger, I didn't have the time to Immerse myself in writers of the Victorian persuasion. Now that I have the time, I can truly enjoy more of Haggard, such as "King Solomon's Tomb." I would recommend this book to those with plenty of leisure time.. "Good story, terrible Kindle formating" according to Mary. The story is about a young man, Leo, who supposedly can trace his ancestry to the Egyptian gods, and the older man who adopted him when Leo's own father died. Leo wants to find out his origins, so they leave England and travel to Africa, where they meet Ayesha, She, who supposedly is thousands of years old, and is of unequalled beauty. She thinks Leo is the incarnation of. Roger J. Buffington said Quite a story!. This is quite an adventure story, well worth reading. I first read this one when I was in the sixth grade, and after re-reading it at age 5Quite a story! This is quite an adventure story, well worth reading. I first read this one when I was in the sixth grade, and after re-reading it at age 53 I still liked it. That is not always true when one visits the books one liked as a lad.This is the story of three Englishmen who, following the dictates of the family legend of one of them, set out to Central Africa to find the lost . I still liked it. That is not always true when one visits the books one liked as a lad.This is the story of three Englishmen who, following the dictates of the family legend of one of them, set out to Central Africa to find the lost
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Like A. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." . Rider Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death. Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that Ayesha had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that H. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the viol
Shipwrecked and captured by cannibals, their voyage soon turns into a nightmare. With his adopted son, Leo, he sets out on a brave journey, following a trail of clues. Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge academic, is reluctantly drawn into plans for a voyage in search of this legendary queen. This masterpiece of suspense and adventure, by the author of King Solomon’s Mines, contains some of the most sensual, gently erotic passages in 19th-century literature.. Somewhere in Africa, a tiny, primitive tribe, the Amahaggers, live secretly amongst the debris of a lost Egyptian civilization, ruled by the beautiful semi-goddess Ayesha, or She-who-must-be-obeyed