Queen Sheba's Ring - Softcover

Haggard, H. Rider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9358042052 ISBN 13: 9789358042054

Verlag: Pharos Books Private Limited, 2023

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Queen Sheba's Ring by H. Rider Haggard is a thrilling adventure novel that takes readers on a journey through the deserts of Africa. The story follows the protagonist, Holly, as he embarks on a mission to find the lost treasure of the Queen of Sheba. Along the way, he encounters various obstacles and enemies, including a powerful sorcerer and a group of ruthless bandits. As Holly delves deeper into his quest, he discovers that the treasure he seeks may hold more than just material wealth; it could also reveal secrets about his own past and identity. With vivid descriptions of African landscapes and cultures, Haggard's novel transports readers to another time and place, where danger lurks around every corner and adventure await at every turn.

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H. Rider Haggard was an English novelist, colonial administrator, agricultural reformer, and one of the central figures in the development of modern adventure fiction. He was born Henry Rider Haggard in Norfolk, England, in 1856, and spent part of his young adulthood in southern Africa, where he worked in the colonial service. That experience gave him material, settings, and political assumptions that shaped much of his fiction, especially his stories of exploration, empire, ancient kingdoms, hidden peoples, and dangerous quests.Haggard became famous with King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, a novel that introduced Allan Quatermain and helped establish the lost-world adventure as a powerful popular form. Its success was followed by Allan Quatermain, She, Ayesha, Nada the Lily, Montezuma's Daughter, The People of the Mist, and many other novels. His books combined fast-moving action, exotic landscapes, mysterious civilizations, supernatural suggestion, romance, and imperial-era adventure in a style that influenced later pulp fiction, lost-race stories, jungle adventure, fantasy, and cinematic adventure heroes.Allan Quatermain remains Haggard's most enduring male hero: a hunter, guide, observer, and reluctant adventurer whose toughness is often tempered by humility, fatalism, and melancholy. Haggard's work is also historically complicated. His fiction reflects the racial, imperial, and colonial attitudes of its age, yet it often shows more interest in African cultures, oral tradition, leadership, and moral courage than many adventure novels of the same period. That tension is part of why his books remain important artifacts of Victorian popular literature.Beyond fiction, Haggard wrote on agriculture, rural life, and land policy, subjects he took seriously throughout his later career. He was knighted in 1912 and died in 1925. His influence continued long after his death, especially through adventure fiction, fantasy, lost-world stories, and the broad tradition of expeditionary romance. Writers and filmmakers who built stories around ancient secrets, hidden kingdoms, perilous journeys, and larger-than-life explorers worked in territory Haggard helped define.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pharos Books Private Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9358042052
• ISBN 13: 9789358042054
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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