Tell your friends about this item:
Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard
Do you have a profile? Log in
Get notified about new H. Rider Haggard releases
Add to your iMusic wish list
Also available as:
Allan Quatermain
H. Rider Haggard
In King Solomon's Mines, Haggard introduces the reader to Allan Quatermain, now one of the most famous literary adventure characters. Second in the series, this book, Allan Quatermain, continues the story of this daring man and chronicles in first person (and through correspondence from some of his fictitious companions) his adventures in Africa. Thought to be one of the fictional characters upon which another such person, Indiana Jones, is based, Quatermain is nevertheless a humble man. By his own definition, he is an ". . . 'Adventurer' -- he that goes out to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another . . ."