'It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.' Legendary explorer and adventurer Allan Quatermain has thrilled generations with his exploits for over a hundred and thirty years. He has ventured to lost cities and mythical jewel mines, faced warring tribes and sought to commune with the dead. contains... King Solomon's Mines Allan Quatermain A Tale of Three Lions Maiwa's Revenge
'It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.' Legendary explorer and adventurer Allan Quate...
'The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.' The most beautiful woman in the world, yet old beyond man's ability to comprehend, the legendary Queen Ayesha reaches out across the miles and through the centuries to Leo Vincey, a man whose lives are linked to Ayesha, the woman known to her terrified subjects as She Who Must Be Obeyed. Ayesha appeared in several novels by H. Rider Haggard. This collection contain the first three volumes... She Ayesha, The Return of She She and Allan
'The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.' The most beautiful woma...
Leonard Outram finds himself suddenly penniless, stripped of his family estates and then abandoned by his fiancee. Outram heads to Africa in search of a way to restore his fortunes. Instead he finds himself pitched into a series of extraordinary adventures concerning a political power struggle among a lost people, a hoard of precious jewels, the priests of an aggressive crocodile god and a beautiful Portuguese woman named Juanna... H. Rider Haggard delivers another incredible adventure novel in the style of his classics King Solomon's Mines and She.
Leonard Outram finds himself suddenly penniless, stripped of his family estates and then abandoned by his fiancee. Outram heads to Africa in search of...
"Good gracious " I said to my friend, with whom I was walking, "why, that fellow looks like a statue of Apollo come to life. What a splendid man he is " "Yes," he answered, "he is the handsomest man in the University, and one of the nicest too. They call him 'the Greek god'; but look at the other one, he's Vincey's (that's the god's name) guardian, and supposed to be full of every kind of information. They call him 'Charon.'" I looked, and found the older man quite as interesting in his way as the glorified specimen of humanity at his side. He appeared to be about forty years of age, and was...
"Good gracious " I said to my friend, with whom I was walking, "why, that fellow looks like a statue of Apollo come to life. What a splendid man he is...
