Complete and unabridged, with 22 full-page plates by Richard Barrett Davis, Aleksander Lauréus and Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny. Harmachis, last of the true Pharaohs, is raised in secret to take back Egypt from the Macedonian woman on the throne — and is sent to kill her. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; he wrote this in 1889 with an Egyptologist checking every detail, and the priest's revenge is told from inside a religion the reader is asked to take entirely seriously. Its 52 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.