When a deputation arrives from a remote and warlike African nation asking for a teacher, the young missionary Thomas Owen answers the call alone. Among a people ruled by fear of their great wizard, he faces temptation, a vision, the feast of the first-fruits and the ordeal of the drinking of the cup, staking his life on his faith against the power of the witch-doctor.
Haggard’s tale of religious courage, with the imperial attitudes of 1896 written plainly into it. Download the free EPUB.