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H. Rider Haggard
English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre.
Child of Storm
Set in Zululand in the 1850s, Allan Quatermain becomes entangled with Mameena, a beautiful woman whose presence sets off great turmoil within the Zulu royal family, interweaving personal drama with the historical politics of the Zulu kingdom.