In 1914, H. Rider Haggardadventure novelist, diplomat, farmer,
lawyer, and, above all, renowned author of such classic and
influential bestsellers as King Solomon's Mines and Shereturned to
South Africa, the country that had fired his literary imagination,
for the first time in a quarter century.
Haggard, whose work is today considered a prototype of colonial
literature, barely recognized the Africa of his youth. The
discovery of gold, the destruction of the Zulu kingdom, and the
aftermath of the Anglo-Boer war had all radically transformed the
political, cultural, and often physical landscape.
No longer the diehard imperialist of his youth, when conquest
and colonization were the order of the day, Haggard toured southern
Africa extensively during this trip, acquiring an impression of
black politics and even meeting the first president of the African
National Congress, John Dube. This is the chronicle, in Haggard's
own hand, of that journey.
A remarkable literary find, written by a man who helped shape
Western perceptions of Africa, this hitherto unpublished manuscript
presents a portrait both surprising and in some ways familiar of
Africa and of a central figure in the literature of African
colonialism.
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