Benita, an African Romance: Treasure on the Zambesi
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by William Taylor Longmire, William Adolphus Knell and Thomas Baines. A shipwreck off the Cape, a Portuguese treasure buried three hundred years ago in a ruined fortress on the Zambesi, and a girl traveling with her father, who wants the gold. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; the wreck of the Zanzibar at the start is taken from a real disaster he had read about, and it is the best-written passage in the book. Forty-eight plates of wreck and rescue at sea by painters including Clarkson Frederick Stanfield and J. M. W. Turner carry the story's storm and treasure in paint.
Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by William Taylor Longmire, William Adolphus Knell and Thomas Baines. A shipwreck off the Cape, a Portuguese treasure buried three hundred years ago in a ruined fortress on the Zambesi, and a girl traveling with her father, who wants the gold. Hag...
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
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