RIDER HAGGARD AND EGYPT

by Shirley M Addy

ISBN 0 952 72932, 186pp, A4 size paperback with high quality paper, colour dustwrapper and many illustrations in black and white.

Available £25 post-free (UK only - overseas please contact publisher) from AL Publications, 2 The Hazels, Wilpshire, Nr Blackburn, Lancs, BB1 9HZ. Email: Shirleymuriel@addy11.freeserve.co.uk. Cheques to be payable to Mrs S M Addy.

Foreword by Dr A Rosalie David, Keeper of Egyptology, Manchester Museum

Introduction by Commander Mark E Cheyne, DSC, RN, DL, grandson of Rider Haggard

Originally written as a project for Manchester University's Certificate of Egyptology course, "Rider Haggard and Egypt" is an exhaustive account of the author and agriculturist Sir Henry Rider Haggard's (1856-1925) keen interest in the Land of the Pharaohs, and covers:

~ Rider Haggard as Amateur Egyptologist

~ Rider Haggard's Collection of Egyptian Antiquities

~ Rider Haggard as Storyteller Influenced by Egypt

~ Recognition of Rider Haggard's Egyptian Efforts

All articles and letters on Egypt known to be written by Haggard, whose most famous novels are the immortal "She" and "King Solomon's Mines", are reprinted in ths book; much of this material is published for the first time or has been out of print for over seventy years.

"Smith and the Pharaohs", a short story by Haggard with the original illustrations from the "Strand Magazine" has been included in this book.

Enthusiasm for her subject glows through her pages ... gives a remarkable and loving distillation of all his Egyptian novels. After perusing this remarkable work, I am sure the reader will be as impressed as I have been at the results of Shirley Addy's labours - Cmdr Mark Cheyne.

the author has provided a uniquely interestng description of Rider Haggard that should make a valuable addition both to Egyptological studies relating to travellers and tourists who visited Egypt, and to biographical accounts of Rider Haggard - Dr Rosalie David.