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Nada the Lily is a historical fiction romance novel set in South Africa written by H. Rider Haggard, an English writer and the creator of fictional character adventure hero Allan Quatermain.

Preface from the book:

The writer of this romance has been encouraged to his task by a purpose somewhat beyond that of setting out a wild tale of savage life. When he was yet a lad,—now some seventeen years ago,—fortune took him to South Africa. There he was thrown in with men who, for thirty or forty years, had been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people, with their history, their heroes, and their customs.