The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return

First published in 1897, The Eye of Istar is a lost race romance by best-selling author William Le Queux. The hero, Al-Motardjim, is a North African dervish in the service of the Sudanese Mahdi. He In order to please his Hausa mistress, he travels south into the central African jungle, perseveres through a series of life-threatening misadventures, and eventually arrives at Ea, the spectacular lost city and last outpost of ancient Babylonian culture...

William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 - 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer.