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Article: The continuity of the spirit among all living things in the philosophy and literature of Henry Rider Haggard.(nature documentaries)
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- Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Abstract
Henry Rider Haggard is a man of many contradictions, not least concerning his representation of hunting in Africa. He is often considered as an adventure novelist whose interests lay in the supposed excitement of big game hunting. His early and most famous novels are replete with the wholesale slaughter of African animals by colonial hunters intent on profit from a landscape filled with a never-ending supply of animals. However, even as a youth, Haggard was troubled by the killing of animals and never hunted anything he did not use himself. He took the philosophy a step further in the early twentieth century by exploring the idea that animals and humans ...