Hello, everyone. I’m just learning about blogging, so bear with me. I’m teaching the course on Imperial Adventure Fiction next week. I just wanted to let you know that I do realize that it isn’t always easy to get the Rider Haggard books (second hand bookstores and public libraries are often the best sources). The Man Who Would Be King is very frequently anthologized, so is available in more than one collection. It was first published in ‘Wee Willie Winkie’, but is also in ‘Twenty-One Tales’. If you are willing to read the books online, try www.archive.org, as a good source of free online books. But I will be assuming that people have probably read these things at some point in their lives, but not recently, so I’ll be giving some plot summaries as we go along. There should be a poetry handout on the day.
If you are interested in some secondary reading, I will also be making reference to Frederick Courtenay Selous’s ‘A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa’ and Joseph Thomson’s ‘Through Masai Land’. Don’t worry, reading these is by no means obligatory–I haven’t even finished the Thomson myself yet.
Looking forward to seeing you all next week.
Elizabeth Baldwin
Imperial Adventure Fiction
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