She
The adventure classic from the author of King Solomon's Mines, who was knighted for his literature. She recounts the exotic tale of two English explorers who embark upon a quest to track down the source of a 2,000-year-old legend of an immortal, mysterious white queen in Africa.
The adventure classic from the author of King Solomon's Mines, who was knighted for his literature. She recounts the exotic tale of two English explorers who embark upon a quest to track down the source of a 2,000-year-old legend of an immortal, mysterious white queen in Africa.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375759055 (0375759050)
ASIN: 375759050
Publish date: January 8th 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 338
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Pulp,
Horror
Series: She (#1)
bookshelves: re-read, victorian, published-1887, play-dramatisation, african-continent, fraudio, historical-masturbation, fantasy, afr-car Read in November, 2009 A re-read via BBC R4 audio book dramatisation. I remember being taken to see the film where 'I Shall Undress' played Ayesha - She who ...
By all rights I probably should reread this before reviewing--I last read this in my teens. I think I'm a little afraid I might find She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed diminished in my esteem, and I'd hate that. I'd rather remember this not only as a rollicking good adventure to read, but above all Ayesha, the ...
H. Rider Haggard is one of those "classic" adventure writers I missed as a child while I was devouring Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar R. Burroughs. Then there were the Lost Worlds tales of that guy who dabbled in fantasy-adventure when he wasn't writing about a detective-doctor duo. Now that I have r...
I liked this, when I read it as a child.
An intriguing fantasy, lost world, adventure story although it does explore some important questions such as the importance of beauty and how much we are driven by ascetics.An interesting point of fact about this novel is it is in the first person POV, but not from that of the heroic, good looking p...
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