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She: a History of Adventure

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First published: 1886
Pages: 276

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Introduction
13:11
My Visitor
19:50
The Years Roll By
13:55
The Sherd of Amenartas
40:25
The Squall
21:25
The Head of the Ethiopian
24:38
An Early Christian Ceremony
31:32
Ustane Sings
26:41
The Feast and After!
21:46
A Little Foot
17:19
Speculations
26:06
The Plain of Kôr
24:35
"She"
23:59
Ayesha Unveils
27:01
A Soul in Hell
19:39
Ayesha Gives Judgement
19:40
The Tombs of Kôr
23:28
The Balance Turns
28:20
"Go, Woman!"
24:23
"Give me a Black Goat!"
23:02
Triumph
33:36
The Dead and Living Meet
22:15
Job has a Presentiment
29:40
The Temple of Truth
21:49
Walking the Plank
25:05
The Spirit of Life
32:23
What We Saw
22:51
We Leap
19:50
Over The Mountain
17:22

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One of the founding works of the lost-world adventure, this 1887 romance sends Cambridge scholar Horace Holly and his handsome young ward Leo Vincey deep into unmapped Africa, following a family riddle two thousand years old. What they find is a hidden kingdom ruled by Ayesha, a white queen of terrifying beauty who has waited across millennia for her slain lover to be reborn. Haggard wraps questions of immortality, desire, and power around a genuinely eerie quest, and his imperious She-who-must-be-obeyed became one of the most influential female figures in popular fiction, echoing through writers from Freud's readers to Tolkien. Strange, feverish, and hard to shake off.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire.