Publisher's Synopsis
Leonard Outram finds himself suddenly penniless, stripped of his family estates and then abandoned by his fiancee. Outram heads to Africa in search of a way to restore his fortunes. Instead he finds himself pitched into a series of extraordinary adventures concerning a political power struggle among a lost people, a hoard of precious jewels, the priests of an aggressive crocodile god and a beautiful Portuguese woman named Juanna... H. Rider Haggard delivers another incredible adventure novel in the style of his classics King Solomon's Mines and She.
