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Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

H. Rider Haggard · 1912 · overland

H. Rider Haggard's 1912 Allan Quatermain novel. The young Allan loves the Boer girl Marie on the Cape frontier, and follows her family on the Great Trek into the perilous interior - to Delagoa Bay and the kraal of the Zulu king Dingaan at uMgungundlovu - through massacre and war in the founding days of Natal.

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    Cape Frontier

    The eastern Cape of Allan's boyhood, where he meets and loves Marie Marais among the frontier Boers.

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    Delagoa Bay

    The fever-stricken coast to which Marais leads his trek, and where Allan comes to the survivors' rescue.

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    uMgungundlovu

    Dingaan's royal kraal, scene of the massacre of Retief's Boers and Allan's desperate part in it.

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Marie Map: H. Rider Haggard's Journey