FINISHED
by H. Rider Haggard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 035601259X
- ISBN 13
- 9780356012599
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Ditchingham House, Norfolk, May, 1917. My dear Roosevelt, - You are, I know, a lover of old Allan Quatermain, one who understands and appreciates the views of life and the aspirations that underlie and inform his manifold adventures. Therefore, since such is your kind wish, in memory of certain hours wherein both of us found true refreshment and companionship amidst the terrible anxieties of the World's journey along that bloodstained road by which alone, so it is decreed, the pure Peak of Freedom must be scaled, I dedicate to you this tale telling of the events and experiences of my youth. Your sincere friend, H. RIDER HAGGARD. To COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Sagamore Hill, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the trilogy of which Marie_ and _Child of Storm are the first two parts. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of Roads, or "The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," upon the royal Zulu House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our enemy in the war of 1879, the last representative who ruled as a king. Although, of course, much is added for the purposes of romance, the main facts of history have been adhered to with some faithfulness.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160395
- Title
- FINISHED
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 035601259X
- ISBN 13
- 9780356012599
- Publisher
- MacDonald
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- 035601259X
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