Heart of the World

Sir Henry Rider Haggard 1856-1925 originate what is known today as the "lost race novel" with the publication of his fantasy masterpiece SHE in 1886. Since then, hundreds of writers, from Baroness Orczy to Edgar Rice Burroughs, have produced stories of lost lands and peoples discovered by intrepid explorers from the outside world. But Haggard remains the master of them all, as this exciting and imaginative novel demonstrates. First published in 1895, it tells a beautiful and tragic tale of love and betrayal, courage and terror in the lost Golden City of the Mayas.