In 1875, Haggard was sent to Cape Town, South Africa, as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, the lieutenant-governor of Natal.

As the Victorian scholar Patrick Brantlinger notes in his introduction to She: " Little that Haggard witnessed matched the romantic depictions of ' the dark continent ' in boys ' adventure novels, in the press, and even in such bestselling explorers ' journals as David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ( 1857 ).

During his time in South Africa, Haggard developed an intense hatred for the Boers, but also came to admire the Zulus.

Thus She " invokes a particularly British view of the world " as Rider Haggard projects concepts of the English self against the foreign otherness of Africa.

Like many of his Victorian contemporaries, Rider Haggard " proceeds on the assumption that whites are naturally superior to blacks, and that Britain's imperial extensions into Africa are a noble, civilising enterprise ".

The real-life adventures of Frederick Courtney Selous, the famous British big game hunter and explorer of Colonial Africa, inspired Haggard to create the Allan Quatermain character.

Haggard was also heavily influenced by other larger-than-life adventurers he later met in Africa, most notably the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham, by South Africa's vast mineral wealth, and by the ruin of ancient lost civilizations being uncovered in Africa, such as Great Zimbabwe.

The pulp romance ( of writers like H. Rider Haggard and Talbot Mundy ) featured bold characters in exotic settings and " lost worlds " such as South America, Africa, the Middle or Far East ; a variant type took place in real or fictional countries of ancient and medieval times, and eventually contributed to the modern fantasy genre.

From his pre-teen years he had developed a love for the sort of African adventure novels that made Sir Rider Haggard famous and over the course of his lifetime wrote a large number of novels in the Haggard genre, in addition to publishing two books about his travels in East Africa and Europe.

In 1884 he went to Africa on a shooting trip, joining J. G, Haggard, the British consul at Lamu.

" In 2006, Hank Williams III included Haggard as well as other country icons in the song " Country Heroes ".

In 2008, Haggard was going to perform at Riverfest in Little Rock, Arkansas, but the concert was canceled because he was ailing, and three other concerts were canceled as well ; however, he was back on the road in June and successfully completed a tour that ended on October 19.

16 records is a queercore label that releases albums by such Pacific Northwest bands as Shemo, The Haggard, and Swan Island, as well as the Brazilian band Dominatrix.

Welk Music Group revitalized the label, reissuing much of its extensive folk and popular music back catalogue ( a good deal of which had been out of print for several years ) on CD, as well as signing a number of new artists ( such as Matt Nathanson, Mindy Smith, Greg Laswell, and Trevor Hall ) along with established musicians ( such as Merle Haggard, John Fogerty, Chris Isaak, Robert Cray, Shawn Mullins, and Linda Ronstadt ).

Vermillion has been enjoying a solo career now playing his own folk and American roots songs as well as covering many classic but perhaps lesser-known American country artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard and Jim Croce.

He stated the same will be done with Haggard: The Movie as well.

It is a novel that " owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain "; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that " established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story – the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others.

Nelson and Haggard were two of Nashville's biggest artists of the time, the former at his creative peak and the latter having just released a successful comeback ( Big City ) two years previously.

These include but are not limited to Ted Haggard, who admitted to methamphetamine use, paying to have sex with a male prostitute, and having sex with a male member of his congregation, and Eddie Long, who is accused of luring two male teenagers into attending his church and forcing sex upon them.

In his autobiography, Haggard spoke of how he composed She within a six-week period of February and March 1886, having just completed Jess, which was published in 1887.

Haggard represents the Amahagger as a debased mixture of ethnicities, " a curious mingling of races ", originally descended from the inhabitants of Kôr but having intermarried with Arabs and Africans.

He is also an accomplished harmonica player, having recorded for such artists as Merle Haggard, John Carter Cash, Mike Patton, and Hank Williams III.

Walmsley is a veteran of the stage and studio, having worked with many notable artists including Richard Marx, Brian Setzer, David Pack, David Koz, the Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald, Gregg Allman, Merle Haggard, Roy Acuff, Laurence Juber, John Mayall, Denny Laine, Spencer Davis, Peter and Gordon, Jackie Lomax, Roger Daltrey, the Beach Boys ' Al Jardine and David Marks, Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean and Strawberry Alarm Clock.

As Kilkee was famous for its bathing spots and natural beauty, many prominent people in society travelled to Kilkee including Sir Aubrey de Vere, Charlotte Bronte ( who spent her honeymoon here ), Lord Alfred Tennyson, Sir Henry Rider Haggard and in 1896, the Crown Princess of Austria visited the town.

Merle Haggard led the rise of the Bakersfield Sound in the 60s, when the perceived superficiality of the Nashville Sound led to a national wave that almost entirely switched country music's capital and sound within the space of a few years.

His parents, James Francis and Flossie Mae ( née Harp ) Haggard, moved from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression.

On November 9, 2008, it was announced that Haggard had been diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in May of that year and underwent surgery on November 3, during which part of his lung was removed.

Haggard was strongly influenced by archaeology and evolutionary theories, especially ideas about the " racialisation " of historical decline prevalent during the fin de siècle.

In 1993, during what Haggard describes as his " first prayer journey ," he traveled with a group to Israel.

People such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard, Jerome K. Jerome and Joseph Conrad all wrote some of their important works during Victoria's reign but the sensibility of their writing is frequently regarded as Edwardian.

In more recent years, Haggard has become more openly critical of " the establishment ", and even disagreed with the Iraq War.

First was the number four " Untanglin ' My Mind ", a Merle Haggard co-write.

The First Nudie Musical is a 1976 American motion picture directed by Mark Haggard and Bruce Kimmel.

Haggard was part of the expedition that established British control over the Boer republic, and on 24 May 1877 helped raise the Union flag over the capital, Pretoria.

Haggard had advocated the British annexation of the Boer republic in a journal article, " The Transvaal ", published in the May 1877 issue of Macmillan's Magazine.

Despite being from the South, he did not become seriously interested in country music until his time at Harvard, where he heard Merle Haggard for the first time.

Other songs in the film include " Big City " by Merle Haggard, heard in the Fargo bar where Jerry meets with kidnappers Carl and Gaear, and " Let's Find Each Other Tonight " a live nightclub performance by José Feliciano that is viewed by Showalter and a female escort.

* Finished, a 1917 novel by H. Rider Haggard where Allan Quatermain fights in the battle

I mis-remembered a term that I had come across in the foreword to an H. Rider Haggard book, where the author was talking about Jules Verne, H. G.

They stood on the Mount of Olives, where Haggard claimed to have felt the Holy Spirit speak to him.

Capt Haggard asked L / Cpl Fuller to fetch his rifle from where he'd fell.