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Title: A huge amount of fun
Review: In his autobiography, the author John Mortimer describes an episode in which he stumbles across a piece of breathless, overblown adventure prose written by his father at age 11. This causes him to meditate on how writers like Rider Haggard, whom his father was clearly imitating, influenced an entire generation of British schoolboys and helped shape popular British thinking about the colonial experience. Then he mentions that Rider Haggard's novels are still a great read. This got me curious -- and he was right! I absolutely loved the story and the way it was told for its own sake. But at the same time, the book is a terrific historical document that reveals popular sentiments and expectations about Africa and Africans and their relation to the British at the end of the last century. And it's clearly the granddaddy of the adventure tradition that has culminated in Raiders of the Lost Ark in our own times. Great fun!
