The Last Boer War (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by H. Rider Haggard

Overview

Haggard lived for years among the British Empire’s colonial officials in South Africa. Also published as A History of the Transvaal, this 1899 work of nonfiction describes the inhabitants, their laws and customs, and the clash of powers. History as only Haggard could tell it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411443471
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	275 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.