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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	:	Deluxe 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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One of the most memorable adventures I've read to date. From the proud Briton in a forgotten land filled with traps, tribal superstition and hidden wealth. I felt a great desire to explore the world after reading this tale, yet, in the same train of thought, I was comforted by my surroundings of spearless men who are not cannibals or mythical gods who desire the blood of the innocent.This was Indiana Jones before Indiana became a thing. I loved the story and highly recommend it.

After reading Cleopatra and King Solomon's Mines, I wanted to read another Hagard book. This began in England, where, because of his uncle's financial affairs, Outram loses his family mansion and his intended. He goes to Africa with his brother but when his brother dies, Outram has no gold, only his trusty Zulu dwarf Otter. Otter recognizes a woman from a slave camp that he escaped. She knows where rubies are but she requires that the two help her free her mistress, a white woman, besides any

As the story opens, an ancestral home is for sale. The father has ruined the family with drinking and gambling. The two sons, Tom and Leonard, vow to make a fortune and regain the family home. They go gold-hunting in Africa and when the story picks up seven years later the action is non-stop.

I finished reading The People of the Mist (1894) by H. Rider Haggard last night (on 6/12/2010). Having enjoyed re-reading Tarzan, I thought Id go a little bit further back in time and read an African adventure by the author of King Solomons Mines (1885) and She (1886). Its been a while since I read either of those notables, but I think I enjoyed them somewhat more than The People of the Mist. Of course, She is a classic; according to Wikipedia its been in print almost continuously for over a

This was an enjoyable read. The dialogue and description was a bit dated and had lots of prose, so it made a bit for slow reading at times.What I find most striking in this book in the author's clear pride of colonialism and belief that white men were superior to black men, with constant references to his African characters as savage and wild. Interesting, however, was his clear empathy for these same characters that they were deserving of the same respect and kindness as his European characters

This is an adventure novel which turns into a heist story through its middle part.The 'heist' part of it--posing as gods to a lost civilization in order to obtain a heap of the pretty pebbles which Europeans seem to love so much--forms the unexpectedly soggy middle of the narrative. This section feeds on the spectacle of the People of the Mist and their wild, barbaric religious ceremonies. The protagonists, shoehorned into the role of deities, are sequestered and become little more than

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,