Though best known for creating the series featuring the unforgettable adventurer Allan Quatermain, author Henry Rider Haggard's other action-adventure heroes are just as compelling and believable. The People of the Mist recounts explorer Leonard...
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Though best known for creating the series featuring the unforgettable adventurer Allan Quatermain, author Henry Rider Haggard's other action-adventure heroes are just as compelling and believable. The People of the Mist recounts explorer Leonard Outram's exploits in Africa. Haggard loyalists and other fans of the genre are sure to delight in this thrill-a-minute page-turner
Title; Contents; Author's Note; Chapter I - The Sins of the Father Are Visited on the Children; Chapter II - The Swearing of the Oath; Chapter III - After Seven Years; Chapter IV - The Last Vigil; Chapter V - Otter Gives Counsel; Chapter VI - The Tale of Soa; Chapter VII - Leonard Swears on the Blood of Aca; Chapter VIII - The Start; Chapter IX - The Yellow Devil's Nest; Chapter X - Leonard Makes a Plan; Chapter XI - That Hero Otter; Chapter XII - A Choice Lot; Chapter XIII - A Midnight Marriage; Chapter XIV - Vengeance; Chapter XV - Disillusion; Chapter XVI - Misunderstandings
Chapter XVII - The Death of MavoomChapter XVIII - Soa Shows Her Teeth; Chapter XIX - The End of the Journey; Chapter XX - The Coming of Aca; Chapter XXI - The Folly of Otter; Chapter XXII - The Temple of Jal; Chapter XXIII - How Juanna Conquered Nam; Chapter XXIV - Olfan Tells of the Rubies; Chapter XXV - The Sacrifice After the New Order; Chapter XXVI - The Last of the Settlement Men; Chapter XXVII - Father and Daughter; Chapter XXVIII - Juanna Prevaricates; Chapter XXIX - The Trial of the Gods; Chapter XXX - Francisco's Expiation; Chapter XXXI - The White Dawn
Chapter XXXII - How Otter Fought the Water DwellerChapter XXXIII - Trapped; Chapter XXXIV - Nam's Last Argument; Chapter XXXV - Be Noble or Be Base; Chapter XXXVI - How Otter Came Back; Chapter XXXVII - "I Am Repaid, Queen"; Chapter XXXVIII - The Triumph of Nam; Chapter XXXIX - The Passing of the Bridge; Chapter XL - Otter's Farewell; Envoi - The End of the Adventure; Endnotes;
