She (1887), an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Among his most successful works, She-which was inspired by Haggard's experience living in South Africa-helped the author establish his reputation as a leading writer of his generation and an invaluable pioneer of the lost world genre of fantasy fiction. Horace Holly, a young Cambridge professor, receives an unexpected opportunity...

This rattling 1887 action-adventure set in Africa's Transvaal region appeared the same year as Haggard's She. During the first Boer War, Captain John Niel plans to settle down on Silas Croft's farm, but falls into a love triangle with his nieces. And, to further complicate Niel's situation, he also must protect one of the nieces from a lecherous megalomaniac.

The lost Peruvian city of Machu Picchu is the setting for this 1922 historical fantasy-romance of the Inca Empire. An English fisherman-tragically widowed, pursued for a crime of passion-flees to South America. In the land of the Incas he finds adventure and romance with a beautiful princess, "Daughter of the Moon."

During the Dutch "Great Trek" to South Africa, an African-raised Dutch girl named Swallow encounters a shipwreck and falls in love with its stranded English passenger, Ralph. But Swart Piet-who is allied with the sorceress Sihamba-tries to keep Ralph away. Haggard's 1898 novel is classic of romance and adventure.

"Our old friend Allan Quatermain" (Publishers Weekly) returns in this fourth (1888) volume of globe-trotting derring-do. Allan narrates the tale of a Zulu woman who, during a hunt for African ivory, seeks his protection-and swears vengeance for the murder of her child.

After the tragic death of his son, Allan Quatermain's grief is inconsolable. Feeling that the only possible way to ease his pain is through an expedition, Quatermain seeks out Captain Good, Sir Henry Curtis, and the Zulu chief Umslopogaas, who all previously journeyed with him to King Solomon's Mine. After explaining his predicament, Quatermain persuades them to accompany him on one last journey-a search mission to find a lost city. Together they...

What begins as a simple mission to win a dowry for a bride spirals into political and social unrest as a famed hunter, Allan Quatermain, witnesses a nation slip into a civil war. Known for his outdoorsman skills, Quatermain's friend, Saduko, approaches him to ask for help winning a dowry for the woman he loves. Hoping to marry a beautiful and mysterious woman named Mameema, Saduko must obtain a sum of one hundred cattle to use as a dowry. Happy to...

Queen of Dawn is about the overthrow of the Hyksos and reinstatement of the rightful pharaonic line.