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A History of Adventure (1887)
by Henry Rider Haggard

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First serialised in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen named Ayesha who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World subgenre, which many later authors emulated. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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A History of Adventure1887Henry Rider Haggard

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A HISTORY OF ADVENTURE

BY

H. RIDER HAGGARD

AUTHOR OF
'KING SOLOMON'S MINES' 'DAWN' 'THE WITCH'S HEAD' ETC.

IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA
STRANGE THINGES THER BE

Doggerel couplet from the Shard of Amenartas

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1887

I INSCRIBE THIS HISTORY
TO
ANDREW LANG

IN TOKEN OF PERSONAL REGARD
AND OF
MY SINCERE ADMIRATION FOR HIS LEARNING AND HIS WORKS

The longest-living author of this work died in 1925, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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