Heart of the World

Haggard, H. Rider

ISBN 10: 0356012646 / ISBN 13: 9780356012643

Published by TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1970

About this Item

Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy, some spine wear, still very useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Seller Inventory # mon0000210167

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heart of the World
• Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0356012646
• ISBN 13: 9780356012643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

An extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.Excerpt from Heart of the WorldThe circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are somewhat curious and worthy of record. Within the last few years a certain English gentleman, whom we will call Jones, because it was not his name, chanced to be employed as the manager of a mine not far from the Usumacinto River, the upper reaches of which divide the Mexican State of Chiapas from the Republic of Guatemala.Now life at a mine in Chiapas, though doubtless it has some compensations, does not altogether fulfil a European's ideal of happiness. To begin with, the work is hard, desperately hard, and though the climate is healthy enough among the mountains, there are valleys where men may die of fever. Of sport, strictly speaking, there is none, for the forests are too dense to hunt in with any comfort, and, if they were not, the swarms of venomous insects of various degree, that haunt them, would make this particular relaxation impossible.