Allan Quatermain
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Subjects: Africa -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction; Adventure stories; Hunting guides -- Fiction; Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Adventure; Fiction
Description: <p><i>Allan Quatermain</i>, the sequel to <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-rider-haggard/king-solomons-mines"><i>King Solomon’s Mines</i></a>, was first serialized in <i>Longman’s Magazine</i> in the U.K. and subsequently published as a novel in 1887. In it we see the eponymous hero reunited with his companions to travel to Africa on a dangerous and adventuresome quest to try to find a legendary tribe of white-skinned people, the Zu-Vendi. Having discovered their remote and isolated country, Quatermain and his crew become embroiled in its internal affairs, culminating in a bitter and violent civil war.</p>