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H. Rider Haggard
The Last Boer War (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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Haggard lived for years among the British Empire’s colonial officials in South Africa. Also published as A History of the Transvaal, this 1899 work of nonfiction describes the inhabitants, their laws and customs, and the clash of powers. History as only Haggard could tell it.

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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.

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 274 ● ISBN 9781411443471 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5863115 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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