After working as an ostrich farmer, he wrote 1885's King Solomon's Mines.
In one of this author's novels, Hugh de Cressi follows Sir Edmund Acour to Venice, where he see the arrival of Murgh's boat which carries the Black Death to Europe. In addition to Red Eve, he wrote about the importance of vaccination in Dr. Therne and about the early Tudor period in Fair Margaret. In one of his better-known works, a priest named Kallikrates is seduecd by the witch Amenartas, while in another Leo Vincey is killed by the kiss of the title priestess, Ayesha. After working as an ostrich farmer, he wrote 1885's King Solomon's Mines. FTP, name this British author of Allan Quatermain and She.
In one of this author's novels, Hugh de Cressi follows Sir Edmund Acour to Venice, where he see the arrival of Murgh's boat which carries the Black Death to Europe.
Henry Rider {Haggard}