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Author(s): Haggard, Henry Rider
Reader(s): Homewood, Bill
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA0058
Barcode: 9781843795193
Release Date: 01/2011
HAGGARD, H.R.: She - A History of Adventure (Abridged)
Somewhere in Africa, a tiny, primitive tribe, the Amahaggers, live secretly amongst the debris of a lost Egyptian civilization, ruled by the beautiful semi-goddess Ayesha, or She-who-must-be-obeyed. Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge academic, is reluctantly drawn into plans for a voyage in search of this legendary queen. With his adopted son, Leo, he sets out on a brave journey, following a trail of clues. Shipwrecked and captured by cannibals, their voyage soon turns into a nightmare. This masterpiece of suspense and adventure, by the author of King Solomon’s Mines, contains some of the most sensual, gently erotic passages in 19th-century literature.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Haggard, Henry Rider - Author
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
|  | 1 | In giving to the world the record of what… | 06:25 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 2 | It was in this very month, something over twenty years ago… | 05:24 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 3 | I sprang almost out of my chair. | 04:32 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 4 | He paused a while, his head sunk upon his hand… | 04:20 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 5 | As it seemed to me, I had only been asleep… | 04:09 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 6 | At length the child arrived… | 04:23 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 7 | On the day preceding Leo's twenty-fifth birthday… | 05:41 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 8 | The next thing that I found was a parchment… | 07:42 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 9 | Thus the letter, which was unsigned and undated… | 06:26 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 10 | Then came what was perhaps as curious an entry… | 05:28 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 11 | How different is the scene that I have now to tell… | 03:35 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 12 | I felt the dhow sinking under me… | 04:28 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 13 | At length the heralds and forerunners of the royal sun… | 05:50 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 14 | Accordingly, having carefully fitted the mast… | 04:22 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 15 | I do not quite know what it was that made me… | 06:17 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Turning back, we walked some way along the banks… | 05:04 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 2 | I suppose I must have slept for seven or eight hours… | 06:57 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 3 | When the 'kissing' operation was finished… | 04:39 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 4 | The night passed very comfortably on the whole… | 07:08 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 5 | On the day following this remarkable scene… | 05:43 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 6 | For a moment there was a silence of astonishment… | 05:52 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 7 | When I opened my eyes again… | 06:13 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 8 | It took us an hour and more to cross… | 03:45 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 9 | By dawn on the following morning… | 06:52 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 10 | We found ourselves in a huge rock-surrounded cup… | 06:10 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 11 | When we had eaten we returned… | 05:22 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 12 | At length the curtain began to move. | 06:11 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 13 | 'There,'said She, 'he has gone…' | 06:11 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 14 | I rose and gazed, and instantly the water darkened. | 03:16 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | 'Hast thou aught to ask me before thou goest…' | 05:13 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 2 | It was nearly ten o'clock at night… | 04:15 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 3 | I was at the curtains, and they did not hang close… | 05:11 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 4 | The next thing that I remember… | 06:46 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 5 | After the prisoners had been removed… | 07:21 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 6 | We left the place and entered others. | 04:30 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 7 | 'So, my Holly, sit there where thou canst see me.' | 04:15 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 8 | Accordingly, I went, only to find Job and Ustane… | 06:38 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 9 | Then followed a silence of a minute or so… | 06:11 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 10 | That night I passed in Leo's room… | 05:29 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 11 | Presently, however, this pleasing piece was interrupted. | 05:38 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 12 | In due course we gained Ayesha's boudoir… | 06:40 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 13 | Suddenly, with a snake-like motion… | 05:02 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 14 | With a sudden motion she drew the shroud from the cold form… | 06:11 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | It was nine o'clock on the following morning… | 04:53 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 2 | In a few minutes' time we were stepping out… | 04:11 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 3 | Of course we got up at once and started… | 04:37 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 4 | Next day the mutes woke us before the dawn. | 05:30 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 5 | At last, however, we halted at its farther end… | 05:39 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 6 | And now, by this ray of light… | 07:18 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 7 | But Ayesha merely called to me to take her hand… | 06:08 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 8 | She paused, and the strange tenderness in her voice… | 06:50 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 9 | We stood in a third cavern… | 05:31 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 10 | At last, from far far away, came the first murmur… | 03:29 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 11 | As soon as it was gone, she stepped forward… | 04:36 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 12 | I know not how long we remained thus. | 05:58 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 13 | We passed through the caves without trouble. | 06:15 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
| | 14 | It was early morning… | 08:18 |
Homewood, Bill (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 05:16:58