Augusta Smithers, a young novelist cheated by the vast Birmingham publishing house of Meeson’s, sails for New Zealand on the same ship as old Meeson himself. A wreck leaves them stranded on Kerguelen Land, where a dying man’s last wishes must be recorded on the only material at hand, setting up a famous courtroom case back in England.
A comic adventure and a sharp swipe at publishers’ treatment of authors, unlike anything else Haggard wrote. Download the free EPUB.