A strange black dwarf who swam like an otter and fought like a tiger. A bold Englishman whose quest for preciousgems brought him a wife he dared not love. A vengeful old woman who knew she could save them or destroy them. And the incredibly beautiful Juanna, who would use all herearthly charms to impersonate a goddess in a land of bloody rituals and hideous terrors. Bound together by oathsof love and vows of hate, they crossed a continent of myriad dangers to find the lost civilization of the Peopleof the Mist and to seek ...
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A strange black dwarf who swam like an otter and fought like a tiger. A bold Englishman whose quest for preciousgems brought him a wife he dared not love. A vengeful old woman who knew she could save them or destroy them. And the incredibly beautiful Juanna, who would use all herearthly charms to impersonate a goddess in a land of bloody rituals and hideous terrors. Bound together by oathsof love and vows of hate, they crossed a continent of myriad dangers to find the lost civilization of the Peopleof the Mist and to seek out the treasure that would forge their destinies.
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New edition. Hardback. Poor condition. viii, 343pp with 16pp illustrations by Arthur Layard (one missing. )Numerous pages sellotaped in with old tape. Black endpapers. Dark green covers with gilt title on front & spiner. Hinge split at the back but holding. Good reading copy.
Like most books written by Rider Haggard he tells a most imaginative story, at times with over verbosity perhaps in keeping with the times when the books were written .He gives a fascinating insight in to the lives of and what were acceptable practices to people living at the turn of the century. "The people of the Mist" opens ones imagination as to the possibility of practices from the distant past being handed down in remote parts of Africa before all parts had been discovered as in modern times. I get as much pleasure today, reading these books by this author as I did some fifty/sixty years ago.
