She

H. Rider Haggard

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

An ancient sherd sends two Englishmen into unmapped Africa, to the ruined city of Kor and its immortal white queen, Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed, who has waited two thousand years for her murdered lover to be reborn. The archetypal lost-world romance.

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