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What if the search for your captive son draws you into a hidden kingdom’s struggle to survive?
In H. Rider Haggard’s Queen Sheba’s Ring, Dr. Adams enters dangerous country with one purpose: to recover his lost son. His search brings him to the Abati, a secluded African people who trace their ancestry to the Jews. Their mountain stronghold offers shelter, but it cannot settle the threat beyond its defenses.
Adams joins an expedition whose members bring different skills, including Oliver Orme’s engineering experience. Outside the kingdom stands Harmac, the Fung’s huge sacred image shaped like a lion. Within it, Maqueda must protect her people and guard her authority. A rescue mission becomes entangled with a dangerous undertaking, political rivalry, romance, and loyalties that cannot be taken for granted.
What you’ll discover
- A father’s urgent search Follow Adams into danger, driven by a son who matters more than treasure or discovery.
- A kingdom under threat Enter the Abati stronghold, where mountain defenses cannot answer every danger.
- An enormous stone challenge Discover how engineering knowledge meets the daunting scale of the lion-shaped Harmac.
- Authority under strain Watch Maqueda balance the need to protect her people with threats to her authority.
- Loyalties pulled apart Explore competing obligations as a personal rescue becomes bound to a kingdom’s struggle.
Who will love it
Readers who love lost kingdoms, desert journeys, ancient tombs, brave soldiers and a love story set against danger will feel at home here. It suits anyone who enjoys a loyal friend with a sharp tongue.
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- A ring and a bargain in London
- The desert tries to kill them
- Slipping past the city of the Fung
- Barung, the Sultan who honors his enemies
- An oath, a tomb and a kiss in the dark
- Down the secret stair to the lions
- Higgs talks, Joshua schemes, the tunnel begins
- What the story is really about
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Richard AdamsAn aging doctor who tells the story, he has searched Africa for years for his kidnapped son Roderick and will risk anything to free him.
- Oliver OrmeA young engineer and soldier, calm and brave, he leads the expedition to destroy the Fung idol and falls in love with the ruler of Mur.
- Ptolemy HiggsA short, red-bearded professor in blue spectacles, he loves ancient relics more than safety and fights and shouts his way through every crisis.
- Sergeant Samuel QuickOrme's dry-witted old servant and an expert in explosives, he believes in fate and guards his Captain and his friends without complaint.
- MaquedaThe Child of Kings and hereditary ruler of the Abati, she is brave and clever and wants to save her people from the Fung.
- BarungSultan of the Fung, he is a proud and honorable warrior who respects brave enemies and vows to retake the mountain stronghold.
- Prince JoshuaMaqueda's fat uncle and promised husband, he boasts of courage, hides from danger, and schemes to win her and the throne.
- ShadrachThe scarred Abati guide called the Cat, he is cunning and resentful, and he knows a secret way into the idol.
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by H. Rider Haggard · 1910
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A ring and a bargain in London
Dr. Richard Adams arrives in London after twelve years in Africa and goes straight to the rooms of his old friend Professor Ptolemy Higgs. Higgs is a fiery, round, red-bearded scholar of dead languages who wears blue spectacles and quarrels with half the learned world. At his table sits Captain Oliver Orme, a young engineer and soldier who has just come back from the Boer War. Adams shows them a gold ring set with a sapphire.
Higgs reads the old Hebrew letters on the stone. They say that Solomon gave the ring to Maqueda, Queen of Sheba. Adams says he was lent it by a living woman, the ruler of a hidden people called the Abati, whose title means Child of Kings. Higgs at first calls the ring a fraud, then tests the gold and goes quiet.
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What is Queen Sheba's Ring about?
It follows Dr. Adams, who seeks his kidnapped son in Africa. He joins an English professor, a young captain and a sergeant to destroy the great Fung idol for the ruler of a hidden mountain people, in return for her help.
Who wrote Queen Sheba's Ring and when?
H. Rider Haggard, the English author of King Solomon's Mines and She, wrote it. It is an adventure romance of the early twentieth century, set around the time of the Boer War and the fall of the Khalifa.
Who are the Abati and the Fung?
The Abati are the mixed descendants of Abyssinian Jews who live in the mountain town of Mur. The Fung are a strong people of the plain who worship a giant lion-headed sphinx called Harmac.
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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