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He sets out to recover a fortune—and finds a hidden people whose secrets put more than wealth at stake.
In The People of the Mist, H. Rider Haggard sends a ruined young Englishman into Africa in search of wealth. His prospects have collapsed, but the quest opens a world beyond his plans: a hidden community, an old faith, and danger waiting for a stranger.
This lost-world adventure follows the pull of fortune into a kingdom shut away from the wider world. Loyalty and betrayal, love under threat, and the struggle between greed and honor run beneath the journey. Haggard presents Africa through Victorian eyes, bringing the attitudes of his time into the mystery and peril.
What you’ll discover
- A ruined heir's quest Follow a young man whose lost prospects send him searching for wealth in Africa.
- A kingdom beyond reach Enter a hidden community where distance from the wider world preserves dangerous secrets.
- Old faiths and powers Discover how an encounter with surviving beliefs and powers can change an outsider.
- Greed against honor Watch the search for fortune meet questions of loyalty, betrayal, and what matters most.
- Love tested by danger Find love under pressure within a tale of travel, peril, and buried secrets.
Who will love it
Readers who love lost-world adventure, daring rescues and loyal friendships, and who enjoy a romance that grows through danger. It suits anyone who likes the old explorer tale of hidden treasure and secret kingdoms.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Two ruined brothers swear a solemn oath
- A dying brother leaves a strange prophecy
- A mysterious woman offers a ruby and a quest
- Three travellers enter the swamp of bones
- A bold bluff gets them inside the Nest
- A false marriage and a battle by firelight
- Pride, jealousy and a promise to a dying father
- Two travellers play gods before a savage people
- What the story is really about
Who’s who
- Leonard OutramA dark, powerful, proud young man ruined by his father's disgrace, who has sworn to win back the family home.
- OtterA four-foot Zulu dwarf of huge strength and fierce loyalty, who serves Leonard and swims like the animal he is named for.
- Juanna RoddThe tall, dark-haired daughter of a Zambezi trader, brave, quick-tongued and proud, who is known to the natives as the Shepherdess.
- SoaAn old woman of the People of the Mist who loves her young mistress fiercely and promises Leonard a treasure of rubies.
- Father FranciscoA gentle, frightened priest with a girlish face, held among slave traders, who hides his love for Juanna.
- Thomas OutramLeonard's dreamy elder brother, a scholar who proposes the oath and leaves a dying prophecy.
- OlfanThe young warrior king of the People of the Mist, whose power is held in check by the priests.
- NamThe aged, cunning high priest of the Snake, who guards the old worship and his own power.
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Le Peuple de la Brume
by H. Rider Haggard · 1894
Ruined by a father's disgrace, Leonard Outram swears an oath that drags him into a slave camp and a hidden land.
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Two brothers lose their ancestral home to a father's disgrace and swear a solemn oath to buy it back. Where does that oath lead?
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Two ruined brothers swear a solemn oath
The story opens on a frozen January afternoon in England, during the sale of the contents of Outram Hall. Leonard Outram, in his twenty-third year, watches from the road as carriages leave the gates. His father cheated others, wrecked the family and ended his own life, so the family's treasures have gone under the hammer.
Leonard goes to the rectory, hoping the Reverend James Beach will let his secret engagement to Jane Beach stand. Beach owes his living to the Outrams, yet he throws the young man out and plans to marry Jane to young Mr. Cohen, whose father buys the estate. Jane slips out through the snow to say goodbye and gives Leonard a prayer book with a lock of her hair inside.
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What is The People of the Mist about?
It follows Leonard Outram, a ruined Englishman who goes to Africa to win back his family estate. He rescues a girl from slave traders and follows a promise of rubies to a hidden people who worship a crocodile.
Who are the People of the Mist?
They are a fictional race of tall, fierce people in a cold, foggy upland ringed by snowy peaks. They keep a huge stone dwarf statue and a sacred crocodile, and their priests guard a store of red and blue gems.
Who is Otter in the book?
Otter is Leonard's servant, a four-foot Zulu dwarf with enormous strength and a great nose. He is a strong swimmer, a clever fighter and a very loyal friend, and he often speaks in proverbs.
The author
H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 · English adventure novelist
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist. He was born in Norfolk, lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, and later settled in Norfolk. He wrote King Solomon’s Mines (1885), She (1887), and Beatrice (1890). He also wrote about agriculture and rural life. He died in London.
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