The Wizard: A Tale of a Zulu Mission
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, William Henry Davis and Thomas Baines. A missionary goes alone to a Zulu-speaking people whose king answers to a witch-doctor of real power, and offers a demonstration: his god against theirs. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; the striking thing about this 1896 novel is that the wizard is not a fraud and the missionary is not a fool, and the book will not say which of them is right. Fifty-six plates of African buffalo, welwitschia and Walvisch Bay, with paintings by Thomas Baines and Charles Heaphy, carry the veld and its creatures alongside Haggard's tale.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, William Henry Davis and Thomas Baines. A missionary goes alone to a Zulu-speaking people whose king answers to a witch-doctor of real power, and offers a demonstration: his god against theirs. Haggard went to South Africa at ninet...
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist and colonial administrator who served in South Africa. His fiction drew on his experiences on the continent and his study of ancient history, producing adventure novels such as Nada the Lily, Eric Brighteyes, and Cleopatra.
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