Montezuma's Daughter (Wildside Fantasy) [Paperback]

H. Rider Haggard (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wildside Fantasy | Publication Date: January 31, 2003

The strange adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, half English and half Spanish, in the years after Cortes's conquest of Mexico.

Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (January 31, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587155028
• ISBN-13: 978-1587155024
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,959,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic Haggard masterpiece, February 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Montezuma's Daughter (Hardcover)

This is a remarkable story in the classic mould of H Rider Haggard's best works which can be enjoyed at many levels. As a straight adventure yarn it carries the reader on a historical roller-coaster ride through 16th Century England, Spain, and Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Rider Haggard wrote Montezuma's Daughter immediately after the death of his beloved son, Jack. It was a blow from which he never recovered and the deep grief and depression he suffered colours this tale of ancient mexico with a dark despair which is not inappropriate to an account of the last days of the Aztec Empire. But this does not make Montezuma's Daughter a gloomy book. Far from it. Rider Haggard was a deeply (if unconventional) religious man and his hopes and aspirations for mankind shine through the darkness to illumine the pages of this book with his wonderful spiritual philosophy which is perhaps his greatest legacy to his readers. The closing chapters on the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenoctitlan under the relentless assault of Cortez are profoundly moving. In short, Montezuma's Daughter is a most moving and well-written fictional history of the fall of Mexico interwoven with a passionate love story and enough action to keep the most jaded reader on the edge of their seat, whilst those who value the deeper aspects of Rider Haggard's narratives as much as the story-telling will not be disappointed.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most interesting adventure stories I've ever read, November 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Montezuma's Daughter (Hardcover)

Within the first hundred pages, the hero has gone to Spain to avenge his mother's murder, learned how to be a doctor, helped drug a girl about to be walled in a convent cellar, held prisoner on a slave ship, thrown overboard, and is shipwrecked in Aztec Mexico. It gets better from there. And yet the hero is such a nice man: a novelty these days in adventure stories.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent adventure book for younger readers, February 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Montezuma's Daughter (Hardcover)

An adventure worthy of Dumas' inkwell. A wonderfully crafted story that should strike a cord with any adventure reader, especially one from 10 to 14. Good coverage of historical facts and environment of the time arranged around a timeless story of love and adventure. Give this book to your kids and they will forever be grateful.