Nada

The “MediaBook” studio presents an audiobook of the famous English novelist Henry Rider Haggard—“Nada,” the fourth in the cult series “Allan Quatermain.” His work is widely known to us through books “King Solomon’s Mines” and “The Daughter of Montozuma,” but those two works are only a small part of the author’s rich creative legacy.

“A few years ago—right about a year before the Zulu War—one European was traveling through Natal. His name doesn’t matter, because it plays no role in this story.

The traveler had with him two wagons of goods and was headed for Pretoria. The weather was cold, there was very little grass—or sometimes none at all—which caused considerable trouble in feeding the oxen and made the journey harder. At that time of year, the European was tempted by the high value of his transport, which was supposed to reward him for the possible loss of cattle. He bravely pushed forward. Everything went well until the small town of Tangara on the banks of the Tugusa River, where the kraal of Cheki, the first Zulu king, who was Setivayo’s uncle… was located…”