Heart of the World

SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD (1856-1925) originated what is know today as the "lost race novel" with the publication of his fantasy masterpiece SHE in 1886. Since then, hundredsof 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. The story of an amazing lost city in the Mexican jungles, and a people who have been cut off from civilization for over a thousand years. The Indians are plotting to restore their great empire , and seem on the verge of success when Princess Maya, daughter of the ruler , falls in love with an English explorer. First published in 1895, [the novel] tells a beautiful and tragic tale of love and betrayal, courage and terror in the lost Golden City of the Mayas. * [Forgotten Fantasy] edited by Robert Reginald & Douglas Menville Cover illustration by T. Yamada The Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library #10 First appeared in Pearson's Weekly, sr, 11 August 1894-26 January 1895 First published in 1895 by Longmans, Green and Company