Reading Maps

Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

H. Rider Haggard · 1892 · overland

Told by the old Zulu Mopo, the saga of the terrible reign of the tyrant Chaka - of Umslopogaas the king's hidden son, who becomes chief of the People of the Axe beneath the Ghost Mountain, and of Nada the Lily, the fairest of Zulu women, whose love ends in blood.

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    kwaBulawayo

    Chaka's great royal kraal, from which the Zulu king's tyranny and Mopo's hidden schemes spread across the land.

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    Ghost Mountain

    The mountain in the north where Umslopogaas comes to rule the Wolf-Brethren, the People of the Axe.

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    Dukuza

    The kraal where Chaka is struck down by his brothers and Mopo, and the dark reign of Dingaan begins.

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Nada the Lily Map: H. Rider Haggard's Journey