An English teen finds danger, romance, and a lost African civilization, in this classic fantasy adventure by the author of King Solomon's Mines. Rachel Dove has spent all her young life traveling the wilds of Africa while her British missionary father tries unsuccessfully to convert the natives. Her mother, just like Rachel, has visions and believes her daughter will live a long, happy life . . . But before Rachel can find happiness, she has many challenges to endure. A flash flood traps her with a handsome stranger. The Zulus take her prisoner, believing her to be the incarnation of their goddess. A brutish Englishman driven mad with lust plots to kidnap her. And she discovers a forgotten nation of little people who worship trees, and like her, can see the future . . . H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English adventure novelist. Haggard studied law, but rather than pursuing a legal career took a secretarial position in what is now South Africa. His time there provided the inspiration for some of his most popular novels, including She (1887), an early classic of the lost world fantasy genre and one of the bestselling books of all time

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