Heart of the World, by Henry Rider Haggard
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Heart of the World, by Henry Rider Haggard
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The circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are somewhat curious and worthy of record. Within the last few years a certain English gentleman, whom we will call Jones, because it was not his name, chanced to be employed as the manager of a mine not far from the Usumacinto River, the upper reaches of which divide the Mexican State of Chiapas from the Republic of Guatemala. Now life at a mine in Chiapas, though doubtless it has some compensations, does not altogether fulfil a European's ideal of happiness. To begin with, the work is hard, desperately hard, and though the climate is healthy enough among the mountains, there are valleys where men may die of fever. Of sport, strictly speaking, there is none, for the forests are too dense to hunt in with any comfort, and, if they were not, the swarms of venomous insects of various degree, that haunt them, would make this particular relaxation impossible. Society also, as we understand it, is conspicuous by its absence, and should a man chance even to be married, he could not well bring his wife into regions that are still very unsettled, across forest paths, through rivers, and along the brinks of precipices, dangerous and impassable enough to strike terror to the heart of the stoutest traveller.
Heart of the World, by Henry Rider Haggard- Published on: 2015-03-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .47" w x 6.00" l, .62 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 206 pages
About the Author Henry Rider Haggard (1856 1925) was an English writer whose best-known work is the romantic adventure tale King Solomon's Mines, though he wrote over forty books in his lifetime.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Excellent adventure! By Richard This novel is very typical of Haggard's adventure stories. This one in particular somewhat reminded me of "Montezuma's Daughter"... It was a story of an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman who fall in love and who must suffer through much because of their deep feelings for one another. The story is told by Ignation (an Indian) who was the friend of both the white man and his beloved Maya. Most of the later part of the novel takes place in the great City of the Heart which is beautiful and yet venomous and deadly... Of course there are "bad men" and "bad women" who do not fully understand the great love of Maya and James (the princess and her white men) and without whom the story would have no conflict or much of a plot... :) So do read the book. It is neither essential to life nor does it provoke any great thoughts or ideas, but nonetheless it is very enjoyable and relaxing.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Aztec Two-Step By s.ferber Although I had previously read and hugely enjoyed no fewer than 40 novels by H. Rider Haggard, I yet felt a trifle nervous before beginning the author's "Heart of the World." I had recently finished Haggard's truly excellent novel of 1893, "Montezuma's Daughter"--a novel that deals with the downfall of the Aztec empire in the early 16th century--and was concerned that "Heart of the World," which I knew to be still another story dealing with the Aztecs, would necessarily be repetitive. As it turns out, however, I needn't have worried. Despite the Aztec backdrop, the two novels are as dissimilar as can be; whereas the first deals with an Englishman witnessing the Indian conflicts with Cortes from 1519-1521 and the fall of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, "HOTW" takes place a good three centuries later. Written by Haggard from November 1893-February 1894, the novel was serialized in "Pearson's Weekly" and later published in book form in March 1896. The novel was Haggard's 18th, out of an eventual 58, and following as it did three of the author's greatest creations--"Nada the Lily," "Montezuma's Daughter" and "The People of the Mist"--demonstrated that H. Rider was very much near the top of his game during this period, a full decade after coming out with the phenomenally popular "King Solomon's Mines," "Allan Quatermain" and "She." "HOTW" takes the form of a manuscript written by the Mexican Indian Don Ignatio, close to the end of his 62 years. In it, he tells of the great adventure that he'd had in the mid-19th century, alongside the English miner James Strickland. The lineal descendant of Guatemoc, last of the Aztec emperors, Ignatio has dedicated his life to the fulfillment of a dream: the unification of the Mexican peoples and the ouster of the Spanish influence. Ultimately, the pair comes in contact with Zibalbay, head priest and ruler of the People of the Heart--who dwell in the legendary Lost City of Gold--along with his beautiful daughter, Maya. As it turns out, Zibalbay's goals are the same as Ignatio's, and so the four travel to the lost city, the titular Heart of the World, encountering many hardships on the trail. But once arrived at the legendary island city (which the reader infers is somewhere beyond the Guatemalan border), their troubles are only beginning, as politics and a love triangle go a long way in destroying their cherished plans.... Longtime readers of Haggard will not be surprised to learn what an incredibly action-packed and exciting book "HOTW" is. Before our adventurers even arrive at the lost city, Haggard has treated us to a mine cave-in, a gun battle with a band of killers, the mother of all storms at sea, a shipwreck (a shipwreck had already been featured in Haggard's 1888 novel "Mr. Meeson's Will" and in "Montezuma's Daughter," and would also figure largely in later novels such as 1906's "Benita" and 1929's "Mary of Marion Isle"), a swordfight, a run-in with nasty father and son smugglers, a battle on top of a ruined jungle pyramid, an almost lethal snakebite, and a trek across both desert and mountains. Haggard throws an enormous lot into his book to please the reader, and his four main characters are an interesting bunch. Ignatio, our narrator, is especially likable, being at once humble, shrewd, and dedicated to his cause, while Strickland comes across as a typically good-hearted, brave and handsome Englishman; the sort that the author loved to depict, and very much in the Leo Vincey mold, from "She." Zibalbay strongly resembles many former and future white-bearded patriarch figures in the Haggard pantheon (I am thinking most especially of Oro, in the 1919 novel "When the World Shook"), while Maya must be added to the very long list of Haggardian women who have sacrificed all for love. (It is remarkable what a lengthy roster of strong female characters Haggard managed to amass over the course of his career; I can think of no author, offhand, who even comes close.) The author treats his readers to detailed descriptions of his Heart of the World, both physical descriptions and details about the people's lives, customs and religion, and it is all fairly fascinating stuff. As always, Haggard's ruminations on various matters creep into his book; his thoughts regarding death, as expressed via Ignatio, are very moving indeed. (Haggard had lost his son, "Jock," two years before writing this book.) "HOTW" may be a touch less exciting than "Montezuma's Daughter," a bit less crammed with incident, and lacks a strong central villain on the order of the earlier book's Juan de Garcia (although there ARE minor rogues and badmen aplenty). Still, it is a highly satisfying creation, sure to provide many nights of excitement; a true page-turner, and all that. Ignatio, before setting down his tale, tells us "I fear that my skill in writing is small." Humble as always, the old Indian was wrong in this regard. It turns out that he could spin a tale alongside the best of them!
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