Elissa: or, The Doom of Zimbabwe
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Great Zimbabwe as Haggard imagined it: a Phoenician trading city in the interior, a priestess of Baaltis, and the destruction the temple has coming. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen; the ruins were a live argument in 1900 — Europeans refused to believe Africans had built them — and this romance takes the Phoenician side of a question archaeology has since settled the other way. It is published here as a period document, with that plainly said. Fifty-nine plates of soldiers, parades and wartime flight from painters including Thomas Robertson and Harry Payne run alongside Haggard's tale, a visual record of the imperial world that shaped his African romance.
Great Zimbabwe as Haggard imagined it: a Phoenician trading city in the interior, a priestess of Baaltis, and the destruction the temple has coming. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen; the ruins were a live argument in 1900 — Europeans refused to believe Africans had built them — and this r...
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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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