
H. Rider Haggard's Benita, An African Romance portrays a strong and brave protagonist as she embarks on a classic adventure. Set in Africa during the early 19th century, Benita, An African Romance features hidden temples, lost treasure, shipwrecks, reincarnations,...













Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but,...






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...

Complete and unabridged edition. 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...

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

