“To Norfolk we journeyed to meet the famous novelist whose books are read all the world over.”
In 1923 British Pathé filmed a short profile of Sir H. Rider Haggard at his home, Ditchingham House, in Norfolk. The author of King Solomon’s Mines, She, and other colonial adventures, can be seen at his writing desk and in his garden. At one point he shows off a staff given to him by the Zulu.
Watch below.
Nick Louras 