In a granite office near the Mansion House, Sir Robert Aylward runs Sahara, Limited, a company built more on show than substance. Alan, a young man in love with Barbara Haswell, owns a small golden fetish, and the tale his African servant Jeekie tells about it draws him to Bonsa Town, the Hall of the Dead and the Gold House of a West African people.
Haggard’s lost-world formula in full flow, though its picture of Africans, Jeekie included, carries the colonial attitudes of 1908. Download the free EPUB.