Fiction · 1887
Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain, restless and grieving after his son's death, sets out from England with his old companions Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good in search of a lost white race rumored to live beyond an unmapped African mountain range, a journey that leads them into the hidden kingdom of Zu-Vendis and its warring twin queens.
H. Rider Haggard published the novel in 1887 as a sequel to King Solomon's Mines; he later killed off the character in this book's final pages, though he went on to write further Quatermain adventures set earlier in the character's life.
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Contents
- Note by George Curtis, Esq
- Introduction
- Chapter I — The Consul’s Yarn
- Chapter II — The Black Hand
- Chapter III — The Mission Station
- Chapter IV — Alphonse and His Annette
- Chapter V — Umslopogaas Makes a Promise
- Chapter VI — The Night Wears on
- Chapter VII — A Slaughter Grim and Great
- Chapter VIII — Alphonse Explains
- Chapter IX — Into the Unknown
- Chapter X — The Rose of Fire
- Chapter XI — The Frowning City
- Chapter XII — The Sister Queens
- Chapter XIII — About the Zu-Vendi People
- Chapter XIV — The Flower Temple
- Chapter XV — Sorais’ Song
- Chapter XVI — Before the Statue
- Chapter XVII — The Storm Breaks
- Chapter XVIII — War! Red War!
- Chapter XIX — A Strange Wedding
- Chapter XX — The Battle of the Pass
- Chapter XXI — Away! Away!
- Chapter XXII — How Umslopogaas Held the Stair
- Chapter XXIII — I Have Spoken
- Chapter XXIV — By Another Hand
- Note by George Curtis, Esq
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1856–1925 · Victorian
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Bradenham, Norfolk, and went out to South Africa at nineteen on the staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, witnessing the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and later farming ostriches there before returning to England to study law. King Solomon's Mines (1885), reportedly written on a wager with his brother that he could not write a novel as good as Treasure Island, was an immediate sensation and established the "lost world" adventure novel as a genre; She (1887) and Allan Quatermain (1887) followed, and Haggard returned to the character of Allan Quatermain across some eighteen further books over the next four decades. Away from fiction he wrote extensively on agriculture and rural welfare, served on royal commissions on land settlement and coastal erosion, and was knighted in 1912 for this public service. He died in London at sixty-eight.
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