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Benita, An African Romance H. Rider Haggard A wildly fantastic tale with ghosts, spirit possession, a lost race, found treasure, and mesmerism....

An adventurous trader, it is said, hearing the legend of a great treasure buried a party of Portuguese hundreds of years before, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. A child was put into a trance, and gave his mesmerist details of the adventures... Read Full Overview

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Benita (alternatively titled The Spirit of Bambatse) is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. In an adventure mingling romance and the supernatural, the clairvoyant heroine Benita assists in a hunt for a lost Portuguese treasure... Read Full Overview

Benita: An African Romance is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.

The novel was first published in serial form in Cassell's Magazine in the December 1905 through May 1906 issues; the first hardcover edition followed from Cassell & Company, London, 7 September 1906. Cassell reissued the title in 1920 and 1926. Subsequent British editions were... Read Full Overview

Benita: An African Romance is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.

Benita: An African Romance is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.

Known as "Benita: An African Romance" Heroine Benita assissts in a hunt for a portugese treasure.

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An adventurous trader, it is said, hearing the legend of a great treasure buried a party of Portuguese hundreds of years before, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. A child was put into a trance, and gave his mesmerist details of the adventures... Read Full Overview