A review by cmjustice
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard

3.0

Sorry, HR Haggard's "knowledge"of Africa is a joke. This was all about a Victorian presupposition and catering to the ignorance and sensibilities of the time. As for the obvious sexual psychology of the author as projected onto his protagonists, I will leave that to folks with more time on their hands. It was entertaining in a naive and ridiculous way though.
"The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom bids the highest in the currency of desires"

"In the face of all we had seen it was difficult for us ordinary reasoning men any longer to doubt its truth, and therefore at last, with humble hearts and a deep sense of the impotence of human knowledge, and the insolence of its assumption that denies that to be possible which it has no experience of, we laid ourselves down to sleep, leaving our fates in the hands of that watching Providence which had thus chosen to allow us to draw the veil of human ignorance, and reveal to us for good or evil some glimpses of the possibilities of life."

and finally "For deep love unsatisfied is the hell of noble hearts and a portion of the accursed, but love that is mirrored back more perfect from the soul of our desired doth fashion wings to lift us above ourselves, and makes us what we might be."