Review: Great adventure story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2009
This is the first Allan Quartermain book I've read, and it certainly won't be the last.  In fact, I just started reading King Solomon's Mines.The Kindle formatting was OK for this.  The one gripe I had is that there were various end notes that were really at the end of the book.  Because it's kind of hard to turn real pages and then flip back, it would have been nice if the notes had been at the ends of chapters.However, since this version was free, I'm not going to dock it a star.  There weren't that many notes anyway, and they weren't that vital to the story.This is the story of Allan Quartermain's last adventure.  He, Sir Henry Curtis, and Commander John Good go in search of a lost city of white people in Africa.  There is also Umslopagaas, a Zulu ex-chief/warrior, who might be my favorite character.  I hope he shows up in another Allan Quartermain novel.  (Curtis & Good are also in King Solomon's Mines, and so far, Umslopagaas has been mentioned, but I don't know if he'll actually show up.)The book is a lot of fun.  I highly recommend it to anyone who likes a good adventure story.