She by H. Rider Haggard | All-Time Classic Books in Fantasy & Fiction

Rider Haggard, a Victorian writer of adventures in African jungles, is best known for "King Solomon's Mines" - that introduces his intrepid adventurer, Alan Quartermain. Later he became the model for Indiana Jones.

SHE is the quest by Leo ..... and Horace Holly his adopted father in the swamps of Africa for a legendary woman who has lived thousands of years. Following a trail taken by Leo's Egyptian ancestor, thousands of years earlier, described on a shard of pottery, Leo and Holly fight malaria and cannibals, to finally be brought to the Caves of Kor, by the will of "she who must be obeyed".

A woman of surpassing beauty, who can kill with a glance, SHE recognises Leo as the reincarnation of her lover, a priest of Isis whom she murdered in a jealous rage, and for whom she has been waiting over two thousand years.

She leads Leo to the sacred flame that can make him immortal, as she. Will he step into it?