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020			_a9780140437638
082			_a823.8 _bHAG
100			_aHaggard, H. Rider
245			_aShe : a history of adventure
260			_bPenguin Books, _aLondon : _c2001
300			_axxxvii, 324 p. ; _bill. , _c20 cm.
365			_b399.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aH. Rider Haggard's classic tale of fantasy and adventure set in a lost world ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queen. On the occasion of his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the locked iron box that is his birthright and finds an ancient potsherd. Following clues engraved on the relic, Vincey and the man who raised him, Cambridge professor Horace Holly, embark on a remarkable adventure that will take them from Victorian England to an uncharted region in East Africa. Surviving shipwreck, disease, and hostile natives, they discover a lost civilization no European has ever encountered--or lived to describe. They have entered the realm of the cruel and beautiful Ayesha, known to those who worship her as She-who-must-be-obeyed. For two thousand years, the white queen has been waiting--for what, Vincey and Holly are about to find out. One of the bestselling novels of all time, She has held readers in its thrall for more than a century. Alongside Haggard's other classic, King Solomon's Mines, it established the conventions of the lost world fantasy genre, and has inspired some of our greatest thinkers and writers, from Sigmund Freud to J.R.R. Tolkien to Margaret Atwood.
650			_a Adventure fiction
650			_aAfrica Novels
650			_ashort stories
700			_aBrantlinger, Patrick _eed.
942			_2ddc _cBK