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H. Rider Haggard
Regeneration (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain

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Haggard was commissioned to write this 1910 work by his friend William Booth, the founder and first general of the Salvation Army. Haggard took the assignment seriously, traveling throughout England to gather first-hand observations of the Salvation Army in action; describing such institutions as shelters, free breakfast services, women’s and men’s social work, hospitals, and the anti-suicide bureau.

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H. 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, which was the inspiration for the character Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 280 ● ISBN 9781411448759 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5863488 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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