Humphrey Arbuthnot, a grieving gentleman, sails for the South Seas with his friends Bastin, a clergyman, and Bickley, a sceptical doctor. A cyclone wrecks them on an island, where they find in a cave tomb the sleeping Oro and his daughter Yva, survivors of a vanished civilisation. Oro wakes with dreadful powers and plans for the modern world.
Haggard’s late lost-race romance, written in 1918 with the war’s shadow over it. Download the free EPUB.