Englishman Thomas Wingfield has survived the murder of his mother, the Spanish Inquisition, and slavery aboard a galleon. Nothing, though, prepares him for Spain’s conquest of Mexico. The tragic fate of his bride—daughter of the great Aztec ruler—urges him home to England on a deadly quest for revenge in this 1893 adventure.
About the author
Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers. Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 328 ● ISBN 9781411441811 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5862993 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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