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After returning to England in 1882, Haggard published a book on the political situation in South Africa, as well as a handful of unsuccessful novels, {{sfn|Ellis|1978|p=89}} before writing the book for which he is most famous, ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]''. He accepted a 10 percent royalty rather than £100 for the copyright.{{sfn|Etherington|1984|p=99}}
After returning to England in 1882, Haggard published a book on the political situation in South Africa, as well as a handful of unsuccessful novels, {{sfn|Ellis|1978|p=89}} before writing the book for which he is most famous, ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]''. He accepted a ten-percent royalty rather than £100 for the copyright.{{sfn|Etherington|1984|p=99}}


A sequel soon followed entitled ''[[Allan Quatermain (novel)|Allan Quatermain]]'', followed by ''[[She (novel)|She]]'' and its sequel ''[[Ayesha (novel)|Ayesha]]'', [[swashbuckling]] [[adventure novel]]s set in the context of the [[Scramble for Africa]] (although the action of ''Ayesha'' happens in [[Tibet]]). The hugely popular ''King Solomon's Mines'' is sometimes considered the first of the [[Lost World (genre)|Lost World]] genre.<ref>According to Robert E. Morsberger in the "Afterword" of ''King Solomon's Mines'', The Reader's Digest (1993).</ref> ''She'' is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gordon-fernandes.com/hp-lovecraft/Supernatural%20Horror%20In%20Literature%20by%20H_%20P_%20Lovecraft.htm|title=Supernatural Horror In Literature by H. P. Lovecraft|publisher=}}</ref><ref>H.P. Lovecraft has stated in his essay ''[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]'': ''The romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition here represented was carried far down the nineteenth century by such authors as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Wilkie Collins, the late Sir H. Rider Haggard (whose She is really remarkably good), Sir A. Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson''</ref> and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the [[List of best-selling books|best-selling books]] of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842147,00.html|title=Cinema: Waiting for Leo|date=17 September 1965|work=TIME.com}}</ref> He is also remembered for ''[[Nada the Lily]]'' (a tale of adventure among the [[Zulus]]) and the epic [[Viking]] romance, ''[[Eric Brighteyes]]''.
A sequel followed entitled ''[[Allan Quatermain (novel)|Allan Quatermain]]'', followed by ''[[She (novel)|She]]'' and its sequel ''[[Ayesha (novel)|Ayesha]]'', [[swashbuckling]] [[adventure novel]]s set in the context of the [[Scramble for Africa]] (although the action of ''Ayesha'' happens in [[Tibet]]). The popular ''King Solomon's Mines'' is sometimes considered the first of the [[Lost World (genre)|Lost World]] genre.<ref>According to Robert E. Morsberger in the "Afterword" of ''King Solomon's Mines'', The Reader's Digest (1993).</ref> Some readers consider ''She'' as one of the classics of imaginative literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gordon-fernandes.com/hp-lovecraft/Supernatural%20Horror%20In%20Literature%20by%20H_%20P_%20Lovecraft.htm|title=Supernatural Horror In Literature by H. P. Lovecraft|publisher=}}</ref><ref>H.P. Lovecraft stated in his essay ''[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]'': ''The romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition here represented was carried far down the nineteenth century by such authors as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Wilkie Collins, the late Sir H. Rider Haggard (whose She is remarkably good), Sir A. Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson''</ref>, and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the [[List of best-selling books|best-selling books]] of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842147,00.html|title=Cinema: Waiting for Leo|date=17 September 1965|work=TIME.com}}</ref> He is also remembered for ''[[Nada the Lily]]'' (a tale of adventure among the [[Zulus]]) and the epic [[Viking]] romance, ''[[Eric Brighteyes]]''.


His novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with [[colonialism]], yet they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically European (though not invariably). Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and Ignosi, the rightful king of Kukuanaland, in ''King Solomon's Mines''. Having developed an intense mutual friendship with the three Englishmen who help him regain his throne, he accepts their advice and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary capital punishment.
His novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with [[colonialism]], yet they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which black Afrikans are portrayed. Black Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically European or Caucasian Afrikans. Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopogaas, and Ignosi king of Kukuanaland in ''King Solomon's Mines''. With an intense friendship with the three Englishmen helping him regain his throne, he accepts their advice, and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary executions.


Three of Haggard's novels were written in collaboration with his friend [[Andrew Lang]] who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.
Three of Haggard's novels were written in collaboration with his friend [[Andrew Lang]]. Lang shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.


Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. At the end of his life, he was a staunch opponent of [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevism]], a position that he shared with his friend [[Rudyard Kipling]]. The two had bonded upon Kipling's arrival at London in 1889, largely on the strength of their shared opinions, and remained lifelong friends.<ref>{{cite book|first=Rudyard|last=Kipling|title=Something of Myself|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525263|year=1937|publisher=Macmillan & Co.|location=London}}</ref>
Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social justice, inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. At the end of his life, he was an avowed anti-socialist and vocal opponent of [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevism]], a position he shared with his friend [[Rudyard Kipling]]. In London in 1889, the two bonded upon Kipling's arrival based on the strength of their shared opinions about freedom and liberty, and remained lifelong friends.<ref>{{cite book|first=Rudyard|last=Kipling|title=Something of Myself|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525263|year=1937|publisher=Macmillan & Co.|location=London}}</ref>


===Public affairs===
===Public affairs===

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H. Rider Haggard

KBE
BornHenry Rider Haggard
(1856-06-22)22 June 1856
Bradenham, Norfolk, England
Died14 May 1925(1925-05-14) (aged 68)
Marylebone, London, England
Resting placeSt. Mary's Church, Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
OccupationNovelist, scholar
NationalityBritish
Period19th & 20th century
GenreAdventure, fantasy, fables,
romance, sci-fi, historical
SubjectAfrica
Notable worksKing Solomon's Mines,
Allan Quatermain series,
She: A History of Adventure
Signature
Website
www.riderhaggardsociety.org.uk

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (/ˈhæɡərd/; 22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations such as Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre.[1] He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.

Life and career

Early years

Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet.[2] His father was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to British parents.[3] Haggard went to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his elder brothers -- they graduated from private schools -- he attended Ipswich Grammar School.[4] This was because[5] his father, regarding him as somebody who was not going to amount to much,[6] terminated his private education. After failing his army entrance exam, he went to a private crammer in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office,[4] but never took them. During his two years in London, he studied psychical phenomena.[7]

Portrait of H. Rider Haggard c. 1902

South Africa, 1875–1882

In 1875, Haggard traveled to what is now South Africa for an internship as assistant to the secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal.[8] In 1876, he transferred to the staff of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, Special Commissioner for the Transvaal. In this role, Haggard was in Pretoria in April 1877 for the announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. According to some reports, Haggard raised the Union flag and read much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally assigned the task.[9]

About that time, Haggard fell in love with Mary Elizabeth "Lilly" Jackson. They intended to marry after he obtained paid employment in Africa. In 1878, he became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, and wrote to his father informing him he intended to return to England and marry her. His father forbade it until Haggard was secure in a career. By 1879 Jackson, married Frank Archer, a well-to-do banker. After Haggard returned to England, he married a friend of his sister, Marianna Louisa Margitson (1859–1943) in 1880, and the couple travelled to Africa. They had a son Jack (he died of measles at age 10) and three daughters, Angela, Dorothy and Lilias. Lilias Rider Haggard became an author, edited The Rabbit Skin Cap and I Walked By Night, and wrote a biography of her father entitled The Cloak I Left (published in 1951).

In England, 1882–1925

Blue plaque, 69 Gunterstone Road, London

Moving back to England in 1882, the couple settled in Ditchingham, Norfolk, Louisa's ancestral home. They lived in Kessingland, and connected with a church in Bungay, Suffolk. Haggard turned to the study of law, and entered the profession "called to the bar" in 1884. His practice of law was desultory, and much of his time was used writing of novels since they were profitable. Haggard lived at 69 Gunterstone Road in Hammersmith London from mid-1885 to circa April 1888. Around this era, he completed King Solomon's Mines (published September 1885).[10] Haggard was influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in colonial Africa, most notably Frederick Selous and Frederick Russell Burnham. He created his Allan Quatermain adventures under their influence, during a time great mineral wealth was discovered in Africa, as well as the ruins of ancient lost civilisations of the continent, such as "The Great Zimbabwe".[11][12] Three of his books, The Wizard (1896), Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu Idyll (1896), and Elissa; the Doom of Zimbabwe (1898), are dedicated to Burnham's daughter Nada, the first white child born in Bulawayo; she was named after Haggard's 1892 book Nada the Lily.[13] Haggard belonged to the Athenaeum, Savile, and Authors' clubs.[14]

H. Rider Haggard in later life (undated picture)

Aid for Lilly Archer

While Haggard a successful novelist, he was contacted by his former lover, Lilly Archer, née Jackson. She was abandonedby her husband after he embezzled funds. She fled bankrupt to Africa. Haggard installed her and her sons in a house, and saw to the children's education. Lilly eventually followed her husband to Africa; according to some reports, he infected her with syphilis before dying of it. Lilly returned to England in late 1907; Haggard continued supporting her until her death on 22 April 1909. This was not made public until the publication of Haggard's 1981 biography by Sydney Higgins.[15]

Writing career

After returning to England in 1882, Haggard published a book on the political situation in South Africa, as well as a handful of unsuccessful novels, [16] before writing the book for which he is most famous, King Solomon's Mines. He accepted a ten-percent royalty rather than £100 for the copyright.[17]

A sequel followed entitled Allan Quatermain, followed by She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (although the action of Ayesha happens in Tibet). The popular King Solomon's Mines is sometimes considered the first of the Lost World genre.[18] Some readers consider She as one of the classics of imaginative literature.[19][20], and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the best-selling books of all time.[21] He is also remembered for Nada the Lily (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking romance, Eric Brighteyes.

His novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism, yet they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which black Afrikans are portrayed. Black Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically European or Caucasian Afrikans. Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopogaas, and Ignosi king of Kukuanaland in King Solomon's Mines. With an intense friendship with the three Englishmen helping him regain his throne, he accepts their advice, and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary executions.

Three of Haggard's novels were written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang. Lang shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.

Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social justice, inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. At the end of his life, he was an avowed anti-socialist and vocal opponent of Bolshevism, a position he shared with his friend Rudyard Kipling. In London in 1889, the two bonded upon Kipling's arrival based on the strength of their shared opinions about freedom and liberty, and remained lifelong friends.[22]

Public affairs

Haggard was involved in reforming agriculture and was a member of many commissions on land use and related affairs, work that involved several trips to the Colonies and Dominions.[23] It eventually led to the passage of the 1909 Development Bill.[24]

He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in the 1895 summer election, losing by 197 votes. [25] He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.[26][27]

Death

Haggard died on 14 May 1925 in Marylebone, London aged 68.[28][1] His ashes were buried at St Mary's Church, Ditchingham.[29] His papers are held at the Norfolk Record Office.[30][31]

Reputation and legacy

Vanity Fair, 1887

Haggard's stories are still widely read today. Ayesha, the female protagonist of She, has been cited as a prototype by psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud (in The Interpretation of Dreams) and Carl Jung. Her epithet "She Who Must Be Obeyed" is used by British author John Mortimer in his Rumpole of the Bailey series as the private name which the lead character uses for his wife, Hilda, before whom he trembles at home (despite the fact that he is a barrister with some skill in court). Haggard's Lost World genre influenced popular American pulp writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy, Philip José Farmer, and Abraham Merritt.[32] Allan Quatermain, the adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American character Indiana Jones.[33][34][35] Quatermain has gained recent popularity thanks to being a main character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Graham Greene, in an essay about Haggard, stated, "Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away."[36] Haggard was praised in 1965 by Roger Lancelyn Green, one of the Oxford Inklings, as a writer of a consistently high level of "literary skill and sheer imaginative power" and a co-originator with Robert Louis Stevenson of the Age of the Story Tellers.[37]

The first chapter of his book People of the Mist is credited with inspiring the motto of the Royal Air Force (formerly the Royal Flying Corps), Per ardua ad astra.[38]

Rider Haggard has been widely criticised for perpetuating negative stereotypes about non-Europeans. For instance, in his canonical book Decolonizing the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o refers to Haggard as one of the "geniuses of racism."[39] The Kenyan author and academic Micere Mugo wrote in 1973 that reading the description of "an old African woman in Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines had for a long time made her feel mortal terror whenever she encountered old African women."[39]

James Powell and Sons' presentation drawing for the Rider-Haggard window at Ditchingham Church, Norfolk (1925)

In 1925, his daughter Lilias commissioned a memorial window for Ditchingham Church, in his honour, from James Powell and Sons.[40] The design features the Pyramids, his farm in Africa, and Bungay as seen from the Vineyard Hills near his home.[40]

Influence on children's literature in the 19th century

During the 19th century, Haggard was one of many individuals who contributed to children's literature. Morton N. Cohen described King Solomon's Mines as a story that has "universal interest, for grown-ups as well as youngsters".[41] Haggard himself wanted to write the book for boys, but it ultimately had an influence on children and adults around the world. Cohen explained, "King Solomon’s Mines was being read in the public schools [and] aloud in class-rooms".[41]

Works

Main article: List of works by H. Rider Haggard

Films based on Haggard's works

Haggard's writings have been turned into films many times including:

  • King Solomon's Mines
This novel has been adapted at least six times. The first version, King Solomon's Mines, directed by Robert Stevenson, premiered in 1937. The best known version premiered in 1950: King Solomon's Mines, directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, was followed in 1959 by a sequel, Watusi. In 1979 a low-budget version directed by Alvin Rakoff, King Solomon's Treasure, combined both King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain in one story. The 1985 film King Solomon's Mines was a tongue-in-cheek parody of the story, with a 1987 sequel in the same vein, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. Around the same time an Australian animated TV film came out, King Solomon's Mines. In 2004 an American TV mini-series, King Solomon's Mines starred Patrick Swayze. In 2008 a direct-to-video adaptation, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls, was released by Mark Atkins; it bore more resemblance to Indiana Jones than the novel.
  • She
She has been adapted for the cinema at least ten times, and was one of the earliest films to be made, in 1899 as La Colonne de feu (The Pillar of Fire), by Georges Méliès. An American 1911 version starred Marguerite Snow, a British-produced version appeared in 1916, and in 1917 Valeska Suratt appeared in a production for Fox which is lost. In 1925 a silent film of She, starring Betty Blythe, was produced with the active participation of Rider Haggard, who wrote the intertitles. This film combines elements from all the books in the series.
A decade later another cinematic version of the novels was released, featuring Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott and Nigel Bruce. Unlike the book and the other films, this 1935 version was set in the Arctic, rather than Africa, and depicts the ancient civilisation of the story in an Art Deco style, with music by Max Steiner.
The 1965 film She was produced by Hammer Film Productions; it starred Ursula Andress as Ayesha and John Richardson as her reincarnated love, with Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins as other members of the expedition.
In 1984, the adaptation of She took place in a post-apocalyptic setting, emulating off of the fame of Mad Max.
In 2001, another adaptation was released direct-to-video with Ian Duncan as Leo Vincey, Ophélie Winter as Ayesha and Marie Bäumer as Roxane.
The film Dawn was released in 1917, starring Hubert Carter and Annie Esmond.
This book was filmed in 1912,[42] featuring Marguerite Snow, Florence La Badie and James Cruze, in 1914 with Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude,[43] and in 1917 as Heart and Soul, starring Theda Bara in the title role.[44]
The book was adapted into a 1921 Italian silent drama film called The Stronger Passion,[45] directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Marie Doro and Sandro Salvini.[46]
The novel was adapted into a 1922 South African film.[47]
The book was adapted into a 1921 British film, Stella.[48]
This novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin (Queen of the Slaves).[49]

Honours

The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named after him.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Rider Haggard Dies in London Hospital. Author of 'She,' 'King Solomon's Mines' and Many Other Novels Was Nearly 69. He Was Knighted in 1912. An Authority on Agriculture and Sociology. Served on Government Missions". New York Times. 15 May 1925. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Lost Races, Forgotten Cities". Violetbooks.com. 14 May 1925. Archived from the original on 15 June 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  3. ^ "The Days of My Life, by H. Rider Haggard : CHAPTER 1". ebooks.adelaide.edu.au.
  4. ^ a b Haggard, H. Rider (1989). "Introduction and Chronology; by Dennis Butts. In:". King Solomon's Mines. Oxford University Press. vii–xxviii. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |nopp= ignored (|no-pp= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". King Solomon's Mines. Modern Library Paperback Edition. v.
  6. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". King Solomon's Mines. Modern Library Paperback Edition. vi.
  7. ^ H.d.R. [Memoir of Haggard]. In: Haggard, H. Rider (1957) Ayesha. London: Collins
  8. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". King Solomon's Mines. Modern Library Paperback Edition. vi.
  9. ^ Pakenham, Thomas (1992) The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876–1912, Avon Books, New York. ISBN 0-380-71999-1.
  10. ^ Eagles, Dorothy, and Carnell, Hilary, eds. (1978) The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-869123-8 p. 188
  11. ^ Mandiringana, E.; Stapleton, T. J. (1998). "The Literary Legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous". History in Africa. 25. African Studies Association: 199–218. doi:10.2307/3172188. JSTOR 3172188. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |quotes= (help)
  12. ^ Pearson, Edmund Lester. "Theodore Roosevelt, Chapter XI: The Lion Hunter". Humanities Web. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
  13. ^ Haggard 1926.
  14. ^ "HAGGARD, Henry Rider". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 756.
  15. ^ Higgins 1981.
  16. ^ Ellis 1978, p. 89.
  17. ^ Etherington 1984, p. 99.
  18. ^ According to Robert E. Morsberger in the "Afterword" of King Solomon's Mines, The Reader's Digest (1993).
  19. ^ "Supernatural Horror In Literature by H. P. Lovecraft".
  20. ^ H.P. Lovecraft stated in his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature: The romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition here represented was carried far down the nineteenth century by such authors as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Wilkie Collins, the late Sir H. Rider Haggard (whose She is remarkably good), Sir A. Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson
  21. ^ "Cinema: Waiting for Leo". TIME.com. 17 September 1965.
  22. ^ Kipling, Rudyard (1937). Something of Myself. London: Macmillan & Co.
  23. ^ Cohen 1961, pp. 239–85.
  24. ^ Cohen 1961, p. 178.
  25. ^ Cohen 1961, pp. 157–58.
  26. ^ "No. 28588". The London Gazette. 8 March 1912. p. 1745.
  27. ^ "No. 31114". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 January 1919. p. 448.
  28. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  29. ^ Higgins 1981, p. 241.
  30. ^ Pocock 1993, p. 288.
  31. ^ "Rider Haggard Papers". Norfolk Record Office. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  32. ^ See Lee Server, Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (2002), pg.131.
  33. ^ The Republic Serials were most strongly influenced by Sir Henry Rider Haggard's "white man explores savage Africa" stories, in particular King Solomon's Mines (1886)
  34. ^ "Star Wars Origins - Other Science Fiction Influences".
  35. ^ "Based on a 1885 novel by Henry Rider Haggard Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, the exploits of Alan Quatermain have long served as a template for the Indiana Jones character. In this particular film, King Solomon's Mines (1950), Quatermain finds himself unwillingly thrust into a worldwide search for the legendary mines of King Solomon. The look and feel of Indiana and his past adventures are quite apparent here, and his new quest follows some very similar through lines. Like Quatermain, Jones is reluctantly forced into helping the Russians find the Lost Temple of Akator and the Crystal Skulls mentioned in the film's title. Both Quatermain and Jones are confronted by angry villagers and a myriad of dangerous booby traps. Look to King Solomon's Mines for a good idea on the feel and tone Lucas and Spielberg are after with their latest Indiana Jones outing".
  36. ^ Greene, Graham (1969). Rider Haggard's Secret. New York: Viking Press. pp. 209–214. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  37. ^ from the introduction to the 1965 Everyman's Library edition of the one-volume The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
  38. ^ "The Royal Air Force MottoThe Royal Air Force Motto". RAF. 25 April 2012. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  39. ^ a b Thiong'o, Ngugi wa (1 January 1994). Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African literature. East African Publishers. p. 18. ISBN 9789966466846.
  40. ^ a b "The List". Abbott and Holder Ltd. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  41. ^ a b Cohen, Morton N., "The Tale of African Adventure." Rider Haggard: His Life and Works. New York: Walker and Company, 1961. 89–95. Print.
  42. ^ "Jess". 21 May 1912 – via IMDb.
  43. ^ "Jess". 18 February 1914 – via IMDb.
  44. ^ "Heart and Soul". 21 May 1917 – via IMDb.
  45. ^ "The Stronger Passion". 1 May 1921 – via IMDb.
  46. ^ Journeys of Desire p.50
  47. ^ "Swallow". 20 July 1922 – via IMDb.
  48. ^ "Stella". 1 January 2000 – via IMDb.
  49. ^ "The Moon of Israel". 24 October 1924 – via IMDb.

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