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Original Title:	The People of the Mist ASIN B0084A73K8
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Leonard Outram
Setting:	Africa

The People of the Mist

H. Rider Haggard

Kindle Edition | Pages: 428 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 3223 Users | 198 Reviews

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Title	:	The People of the Mist
Author	:	H. Rider Haggard
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 428 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2012 by Classic Books Library (first published 1894)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Adventure. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction

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When two brothers lose their home because of the father's unethical behavior, then he commits suicide, Leonard Outram and his older sibling, Tom are left penniless. Both flee to Africa and vowing to each other never to return until they regain Outram Hall, in England. But how to restore their family's centuries old, estate and honor? Leonard leaves the woman he loves Jane Beach, her father forbids his daughter from marrying Outram who has no income or prospects. Besides, a rich man wants Jane to be his bride, emotions run high as Leonard and Jane say good-bye probably for the last time. Many tears flow and not just from Jane's eyes, hugs and kisses and then she disappears into the cold night...Seven years later, the brothers are digging for gold on a lonely hill in southern Africa finding a small amount yet Leonard still remembers Jane, and Tom is dying in a tent. Leonard reaffirms his pledge to Tom to keep on until their goal is reached as his brother's life slowly comes to an end at dawn. The despondent Leonard helplessly watches, all his entourage are now dead. Four graves dug, the African servants have gone too. Only his friend the black dwarf named Otter (by him) because he swims like one, remains. However a hungry old woman arrives and tells a fantastic tale, slave traders have kidnapped her mistress Juanna (the correct name should be Joana). While her father was away from his small settlement and taken with others to a slave camp in Portuguese Mozambique. If he rescues her the woman Soa will take him to her tribe The People of the Mist, where precious stones, rubies and sapphires are found. Miraculously he succeeds by disguising himself as a French slaver but not before marrying Juanna, by force. Francisco a captured Catholic priest performed the ceremony the couple had known each other for a few minutes; nevertheless Outram was the top bidder! The slaver boss Antonio Pereira, almost a gentleman he insisted Leonard do the right thing ...well maybe that's not really quite true, he did kill a few people. After much bloody fighting, burning up the camp, destroying it forever with the help of his new, freed and grateful African friends. The unlikely and uneasy party of five strangers, Leonard, Juanna, Otter, Francisco and Soa, the unfriendly guide. Along with some former captives recently liberated by the now, well nicknamed the "Deliverer", Leonard. They head up north to the mountains in the center of the unexplored continent, months pass the tired group are starving worst yet, Juanna acts like she hates Leonard, he loves the Portuguese lady and she keeps away from her "husband". At long last they come to their destination... a tall cliff. How can the five get over it and come to the hostile land of Soa's, the tribe practice human sacrifice to the Gods ( a monster in a pool). The old woman hasn't been here in forty years, changes would have occurred since then? Still Mr. Outram would rather die than turn back...the group starts climbing...Death awaits there in the mysterious land of the thick mists. Set at the end of the Victorian age... Just pure fun, a touch of red liquid though... for suitable entertainment...

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This is a tale of derring-do, with great villains, damsels in distress, and English adventurers to the rescue. If I had to compare it to a story I've read I would go with the Count of Monte Cristo.The hero is obsessive and unscrupulous in his pursuit of treasure, even to the point of risking the lives of those he loves to obtain it, but is otherwise courageous and valiant. His companion, Otter, is a dwarf-servant and my favorite character in the book. The story has two main thrusts and both are

I'm still working on this. I have a Kindle version, which I was reading while I was at Gulf Coast Medical waiting for my husband to be taken to recovery. There were parts I had to read over again because frankly it was putting me to sleep, but I kept reminding myself this story was at least 100 years old. Also 1. at that time they were more into telling than showing, and this is something else I have to keep in mind. Also 2. they were big into facial hair, which...ewww.On the plus side, it does

A rousing adventure tale in the best traditions of the genre. If this book had been written at a later time I would say the plot was tired and overused. However given the time period of the writing it is easy to see how Sir Henry's works form the basis for the adventures tales of later authors including (as I understand) Robert Howard (of Conan fame) and Edgar Rice Burroughs(Tarzan among others).The writing was excellent, the plot twists were well done and the dialogue was fun to read as it was

An adventure/romance novel, set in Africa during the slave trade era of the 1800's. A quaint naivete and constraint characterize the writing throughout: there is violence, but not gratuitous or graphic; there is romance but no sex; the native Africans exist on a different and lower plain than the white people (but intelligent and honorable Africans play major parts in this story). This is all expected from a novel published in 1893-1894. The action moved along moderately for much of the book,

First published in 1894It is a tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god. The story opens with Tom and Leonards family ancestral home and all other items auctioned off to pay off the fathers debts leaving the young men pennyless with the sons vowing to make a fortune and regain the family home or never return to England. The first 2 chapters cover this along with Leonards engagement to Jane Beach, whose

After their father ruins the family, forcing his two sons to sell off the estate, they set out for Africa, vowing not to return until their fortune is made. Seven years later, on the brink of giving up, the surviving brother, Laurence, learns of the wealth in the lost valley of the People of the Mist ... This is an old-school adventure, and heartily adventurous (the escape over the ice bridge is absolutely nailbiting) though much of the plot is kind of old-hat. A bigger problem is that this is

The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard was a Kindle Freebie that I had downloaded from Amazon. Although written in the antiquated style of the 1800's, it was an exciting tale of romance and adventure. The book begins with Leonard Outram losing his fortune at the hands of his father and he is turned out penniless to seek his fortune to regain his ancestral home. He travels to Africa with his brother to seek their fortunes together. Soon afterward, he takes "Otter" in his employ, loses his