Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers. Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.
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Englishman Thomas Wingfield has survived the murder of his mother, the Spanish Inquisition, and slavery aboard a galleon. Nothing, though, prepares him for Spain’s conquest of Mexico. The tragic fate of his bride—daughter of the great Aztec ruler—urges him home to England on a deadly quest for revenge in this 1893 adventure.
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