Allan Quatermain (c.1815-c.1886), Adventurer Allan Quatermain (c.1815-c.1886), Adventurer The Dates The dates I estimate for Allan (c.1815-c.1886) are based on information in the books about him. Born The first book about him according to internal chronology, Marie, says that ``as a very young man'' he accompanied Piet Retief's Boer expedition to the Zulu king Dingaan ( Shaka Zulu's half brother ). There was one such expedition in 1830 . However, in the novel Allan and the editor both mention the year 1835 in relation to when he first met Retief, so apparently the expedition in question was in 1835. I'm assuming very young man means younger than 21; let's say he was 20 years old, and then he was born about 1815. Or maybe he was precocious and was 15 in 1835, so born about 1820.

Encounter south africa says Retief visited Dingaan in October 1837 , so maybe Allan Quatermain was born about 1817. Dingaan had his men kill Retief 6 February 1838 , so the AQ couldn't have met Retief any later than that. At the beginning of King Solomon's Mines Allan says that he is 55 years old. At the end of that book, he quotes a letter dated 1 October 1884 ; thus he must have been born about 1829. If so, he must have been very precocious in 1835 to have been fighting wars and getting married at the age of 6. Since Marie was written much later, let's assume the early dates in that novel are more correct, and lets retain the estimate of 1815 for his birth year. The Marie of the novel by that title was Marie Marais, Allan's first wife; they both lived in Boer South Africa; her father was a French Huguenot.

Died The story of Marie was supposedly found in a manuscript found by the keeper of his estate, who in a fictional letter dated January 17th, 1909, says, ``The Court, however, not being satisfied that there was any legal proof of his death, invested the capital funds in trustee securities, and by my advice let his place in Yorkshire to a tenant who has remained in occupation of it during the last two decades.'' — Mr. George Curtis, in Marie Two decades before would have been about 1889. There is an editorial note in the second book written about Allan, which was the one in which he died: ``*{By a sad coincidence, since the above was written by Mr Quatermain, the Masai have, in April 1886, massacred a missionary and his wife--Mr and Mrs Houghton--on this very Tana River, and at the spot described. These are, I believe, the first white people who are known to have fallen victims to this cruel tribe. --EDITOR.}'' — Allan Quatermain So internal evidence indicates that the book was written about 1885, purportedly by Allan himself.

That also estimates the year of his death, since he last wrote in it just before he died. Let's also take into account Allan's comments in Allan Quatermain that it had been two years since he had buried his son, and that he had been ``several years'' in England, after forty years in the wild. Two years after he was moving to England at the end of King Solomon's Mines in 1884 would be 1886. So Allan Quatermain must be set in 1886 or later. Let's say 1886, which is the year before the latter book was published, and thus probably the year Haggard finished working on it. It is said that Haggard wrote that book in ten weeks in 1885, but the editorial remark indicates someone edited it in 1886. Thus Allan Quatermain was born about 1815 and died about 1886, apparently at the age of 71. I'm sure that if there are better estimates, someone will let me know. Update 14 June 2013 : Wikipedia has him born 1817 died c.

18 June 1885, with this chronology from J. E. Scott, "A Note Concerning the Late Mr Allan Quatermain", in A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Haggard 1856–1925, London: Elkin Mathews Ltd, 1947.

1835–1838: Marie (1912) 1842–1843: "Allan's Wife", title story in the collection Allan's Wife (1887) 1854–1856: Child of Storm (1913) 1858: "A Tale of Three Lions", included in the collection Allan's Wife (1887) 1859: Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888) 1868: "Hunter Quatermain's Story", included in the collection Allan's Wife (1887) 1869: "Long Odds", included in the collection Allan's Wife (1887) 1870: Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) 1871: Heu-heu: or, The Monster (1924) 1872: She and Allan (1920) 1873: The Treasure of the Lake (1926) 1874: The Ivory Child (1916) 1

879: Finished (1917) 1879: "Magepa the Buck", included in the collection Smith and the Pharaohs (1920) 1880: King Solomon's Mines (1885) 1882: The Ancient Allan (1920) 1883: Allan and the Ice-gods (1927) 1884–1885: Allan Quatermain (1887) Also added some links (mostly about Retief) and some pictures.

End Update 14 June 2013 . Our cousin once removed by fiction, Allan Quatermain, first appeared in 1885 in King Solomon's Mines , by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard had recently read Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island, and had been dared by a friend to do better. So he wrote one of the great adventure novels, and created one of the great adventurers: ``...the lonely existence in wild places, often with only the sun and the stars for companions; the continual adventures; the strange tribes with whom I came in contact; in short, the change, the danger, the hope always of finding something great and new, that attracted and still attracts me, even now when I have found the great and the new.'' —Allan Quatermain, Child of Storm That was Allan's own account of his motivations. Two years later, Haggard wrote the book named after Allan Quatermain , in which his hero dies.

In that book Allan's friend Good writes of him: ``Tender, constant, humorous, and possessing of many of the qualities that go to make a poet, he was yet almost unrivalled as a man of action and a citizen of the world. '' Ah, here it is, in The Days of My Life Volume I by Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1912, first published 1926: I was despatched to the Rev. [H. J.] Graham, who took in two or three small boys (at that time I must have been nine or ten years of age) at Garsington Rectory near Oxford. The Rectory, long ago pulled down, was a low grey house that once had served as a place of refuge in time of plague for the Fellows of one of the Oxford colleges. Twice, if not three times, in the course of my after life I have revisited this spot; the last occasion being about two years ago. Except that the Rectory has been rebuilt the place remains just the same.

There is the old seventeenth-century dovecote and the shell of the ancient pollard elm, in the hollow trunk of which I used to play with a child of my own age, Mrs. Graham's little sister Blanche, who was as fair in colouring as one of her name should be. I believe that she has now been dead many years. Quite near to the Rectory and not far from the pretty church, through the chancel door of which once I saw a donkey thrust its head and burst into violent brays in the midst of Mr. Graham's sermon, stood a farm-house. The farmer, a long, lank man who wore a smart frock, was very kind to me—I found his grave in the churchyard when last I was there. He was called [ William ] Quatermain, a name that I used in "King Solomon's Mines" and other books in after years. After looking at this farm and the tree nearby which bore walnuts bigger and finer than any that grow nowadays, I went to the new Rectory and there saw working in the garden a tall, thin old man, who reminded me strangely of one whom I remembered over thirty years before.

"Is your name Quatermain?" I asked. He answered that it was. Further inquiry revealed the fact that he was a younger brother of my old friend, whom I was able to describe to him so accurately that he exclaimed in delight: "That's him! Why, you /do/ bring him back from the dead, and he gone so long no one don't think of him no more." Also added pictures of Allan, Selous, and Connery as Allan, plus a few links and typo fixes. End Update of 13 June 2013. And as we know, Oxfordshire is the historical center of Quatermaines in England. And in America there are French Huguenot connections (see sidebar about Allan's first wife, Marie Marais). I could also call Allan our cousin by diary, since an adventurer who claimed to have discovered King Solomon's Mines is mentioned near the historical person Dr. William Quarterman in the Diary of Samuel Pepys: "Alexander St. Michel (S. Pepys father-in-law) . . . In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that he had discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diary ...

contains a curious commentary upon these visions of wealth:--" — 1893 introduction to the Diary of Samuel Pepys Both Allan and Haggard were very much creatures of their Victorian times. Allan often didn't have much use for civlization, but he was an unquestioning supporter of the British Empire; Haggard and Kipling even colaborated on several books. Allan shows a real appreciation of various cultures ranging from Boer to Zulu, yet often he sounds racist to modern ears. No doubt many current practices and sayings will sound barbaric a century hence. Allan was apparently modeled on assorted rugged Victorian adventurers in Africa such as Dr. Livingstone, Frederick Courteney Selous , and on Haggard himself. (I don't know if Alexander St. Michel was a model). Allan influenced other fictional adventurers, from Strider (Haggard was the only author Tolkien would admit had influenced him) to Edgar Rice Borroughs' John Carter of Mars.

And Haggard's books influenced adventure writers from Kipling to Conan Doyle to Michael Crichton (Allan was the archetypical Great White Hunter and Crichton's movie Congo has a character who describes himself as a Great White Hunter who happens to be black; Haggard's books about Allan invented the Lost Race genre, and Congo includes a lost race; plus of course it is set in Africa.) Yet sometimes there was more than adventure to the Quatermain stories. As one reviewer wrote of King Solomon's Mines, ``The story is essentially one of a hard journey that develops from a mere treasure hunt into a voyage of the spirit.'' Allan Quartermain (eBook, 2011) [WorldCat.org] Find more libraries Librarian? Claim your library to Allan Quartermain New York : Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2011. Edition/Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : English View all editions and formats Database: WorldCat Summary: Published in 1885, this novel features Allan Quatermain, Haggard's popular two-fisted hero from other novels like King Solomon's Mines.

Against the background of a warlike Caucasian tribe hidden away in darkest Africa, Quatermain mourns the loss of his son and experiences a most harrowing and fantastical adventure. Rating: You are connected to the University of Washington Libraries network Hide local services for this item Show all links Add library to Favorites Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item... Details H. Rider Haggard. Abstract: Published in 1885, this novel features Allan Quatermain, Haggard's popular two-fisted hero from other novels like King Solomon's Mines. Against the background of a warlike Caucasian tribe hidden away in darkest Africa, Quatermain mourns the loss of his son and experiences a most harrowing and fantastical adventure. Reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Tags Add tags for "Allan Quartermain". Be the first. Similar Items Allan Quartermain by H.

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1985) Language: English Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 15.2 x 22.9 cm Average Customer Review: Product Description About the Author Born in 1856, Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential to this day. He died in 1925. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? By Cecilia S. Idiart on 14 Jan. 2004 Format: Paperback Allan Quatermain and his friends Sir Henry Curtis and John Good find themselves thirsty for adventure after their return to England from the caves of King Solomon and therefore decide to go back to Africa, this time not in search of hidden treasure, but of a white race supposed to inhabit the interior of the continent. After quite an eventful journey, they reach Zu-Vendis, a fantastic country, where still more dangers are in store for them . . .

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Whatever happened to Odysseus after his disastrous return home to Ithaca? Adventure author H. Rider Haggard, most famous for writing King Solomon's Mines, and learned H... David Pringle: Allan & the Ice-Gods Allan & the Ice-Gods David Pringle Although it did not appear until two full years after his death on 14th May 1925, Allan and the Ice-Gods (Hutchinson, May 1927) was not quite the last of Rider Haggard's novels. It had been preceded by the posthumous The Treasure of the Lake (1926)  also an Allan Quatermain story  and it was followed by a final pair of posthumous titles, Mary of Marion Isle (1929) and Belshazzar (1930), both unrelated to the Quatermain series. We know that Haggard liked to write well ahead of his approximately annual publishing schedule and to store his finished manuscripts in a safe, so it comes as no great surprise to read in Morton Cohen's excellent biography of the author that Allan and the Ice-Gods was written as early as 1922.

What comes as much more of a surprise is to learn from Professor Cohen that this far-out adventure tale of a modern-day hero who takes an hallucinogenic drug which allows his consciousness to plunge backwards through time, entering the mind of an Ice-Age man, was actually plotted in collaboration with Rudyard Kipling, eminent author of The Jungle Book and Kim: "In the course of their association, Kipling suggested the idea for at least one of Haggard's tales (When the World Shook), he took a considerable hand in plotting five others (The Ghost Kings, Red Eve, Allan and the Ice-Gods, The Mahatma and the Hare, The Way of the Spirit), and he read (or was read) at least six stories in manuscript... For this much we have evidence... "Kipling seems to have given Haggard the most elaborate assistance on Allan and the Ice-Gods, which they worked over on Haggard's visit to Bateman's [Kipling's home] in February 1922. The evidence rests in a group of seven pages (four quarto sheets) containing detailed plotting, alternating between Haggard's and Kipling's handwriting...

[and] a list in Kipling's hand of the characters of the tale, with accompanying phrases that either explain the meaning of their names or give a thumb-nail description... On the reverse of one page, Haggard wrote: 'Synopsis of story drawn up by Rudyard K & myself at Batemans (Feb. 1922) H. Rider Haggard.' Of particular interest is the fact that the larger part of the writing is in Kipling's hand..."  Morton Cohen, Rider Haggard: His Life & Work, London: Macmillan, 1960; 2nd edition, 1968, p204-206 It would be a mistake to make too much of that, however  to regard Allan and the Ice-Gods as essentially Kipling's novel.

It may contain some of Kipling's ideas, but the style is pure Haggard; and, after all, Haggard himself had earlier been an inspiration to Kipling  the latter testified in his autobiography that the idea for the Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (1893) had suddenly flashed upon him while he was reading the episode of the "wolf brothers" in Haggard's Zulu romance Nada the Lily (1891). Also, Kipling may well have been influenced by the tale of Hendrika the baboon-woman in Haggard's earlier novel Allan's Wife (1889)  an interesting female model for both Mowgli the wolf-boy and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan the ape-man (the latter was first presented to the world in 1912, in the pages of an American pulp magazine, All-Story). The give-and-take between these turn-of-the-century popular writers was considerable, although Haggard, who was nearly a decade older than Kipling and wrote his first Allan Quatermain story, King Solomon's Mines, in 1885, takes precedence over most.

It was an extraordinary era for popular fiction, this period from the 1880s to the First World War which the critic Roger Lancelyn Green has called the Age of the Storytellers. At exactly the moment when Haggard was enjoying his first flush of success with King Solomon's Mines, in 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson was writing his celebrated novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (published January 1886) and Arthur Conan Doyle was scribbling his "shilling shocker" A Study in Scarlet, about the adventures of a near-superhuman detective called Sherlock Holmes (foolishly rejected by the leading publisher of shilling shockers, Arrowsmith, it languished for over a year until its appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual, 1887). At almost the same moment, too, a very young Herbert George Wells was conceiving the ideas, and writing the early drafts, of what would become his first great success in the field of scientific romance, The Time Machine (in book form, 1895; but the crude prototype was serialized as "The Chronic Argonauts" in the Science Schools Journal, 1888).

Five authors, above all others, were to dominate the Age of the Storytellers, and those five were Stevenson, Haggard, Doyle, Kipling and Wells. Between them, they bequeathed to the 20th century, to its legacy of popular prose fiction and film, so many of the great and enduring characters, ideas, themes, situations and genres. One of the new sub-genres which arose in that period was the tale of prehistory, the adventure story set in the remotest conceivable human past. In many ways, this type of tale blended well with those that explored the "wild man" or feral-child theme, alluded to above: both sub-genres were imaginative responses, however muddled, to the 19th-century discovery of fossilized hominid remains, such as the famous Neanderthal Man, and to the new biology of evolution by Natural Selection, as expounded by Charles Darwin.

The colourful and conventional historical romance, full of knights in armour or Romans in togas, had been a popular genre for a long time, at least since the days of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1819) and Bulwer Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), but the pre-historical romance  inspired more by the sciences of archaeology and paleontology than by any written records, and thus more a form of science fiction than of historical fiction  was a new thing in the late 19th century. There were French-language precedents (one can find French precedents for most 19th-century trends in popular fiction)  an 1861 novel called Paris avant les hommes (Paris Before Men) by Pierre Boitard seems to have been the first  but in English the tale of prehistory really got underway in the 1890s and the decades following. Examples of the form include A Son of Noah by Mary Anderson (1893), From Monkey to Man by Austin Bierbower (1894), The Story of Ab by Stanley Waterloo (1897), "A Story of the Stone Age" by H.

G. Wells (serialized in The Idler, May-September 1897), The Pagan's Progress by Gouverneur Morris (1904), A Woman of the Ice Age by Louis Pope Gratacap (1906), Before Adam by Jack London (1906), The Red Feather by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (1907), Wolf: The Memoirs of a Cave Dweller by Peter B. McCord (1908), Longhead by Charles Henry Robinson (1913), Stories of the Cave People by Mary E. Marcy (1917) and In the Morning of Time by Charles G. D. Roberts (1919). Rider Haggard's friend and erstwhile collaborator, the folklorist and amateur anthropologist Andrew Lang, had been one of the earliest in the field with his amusing short story "The Romance of the First Radical" (1886).

Thus Haggard was contributing to an already well-established genre when he came to write Allan and the Ice-Gods in 1922, and few of his ideas were "original." There had been many tales of small primitive tribes struggling with dangerous environments, savage beasts and their own atavistic impulses. Even his framing device, of a hero's slip backwards in time into an earlier incarnation of himself, was well-worn: Jack London had utilized something similar in Before Adam. But Haggard's narrative has the virtue of being more vivid than most, more deeply imagined. Once past the opening couple of chapters, with their rather heavy-handed humour and elements of authorial self-parody (the ageing Allan Quatermain in terrified flight from his own particular cut-price version of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, Lady Luna Ragnall), the reader is gripped by the prehistoric characters, the descriptions of their world, and the set-piece action scenes.

There are many good things: the mammoth and the hairy ape-man trapped inside the glacier, where they are mistaken for "ice-gods"; the making of the great axe by Pag the Cunning Dwarf; the hero's duel-to-the-death with the old tribal chieftain, Henga; the trapping of the wolves and the killing of the sabre-tooth; the coming of the golden-haired, heartbreaking Laleela in her dugout canoe; the fight with the aurochs; and so on. The character of Pag, in particular, dominates the novel; he is another of Haggard's wise and wonderful dwarfs (compare Hans the Hottentot in The Ivory Child  of whom, we learn in the final chapter, Pag is almost certainly a "pre-incarnation"  or Otter, the stunted but formidable Zulu warrior in The People of the Mist). Prehistoric romance has remained popular since Haggard's contribution to the form; in fact, it has gained a whole new lease of life in the last couple of decades thanks to Jean M.

Auel's bestselling series of "Earth's Children" novels (The Clan of the Cave Bear [1980], etc)  compare Auel's Ayla, the stone-age blonde, with Haggard's Laleela. Among the lesser-known recent examples of prehistoric fiction are Philip Jose Farmer's Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974) and it sequel Flight to Opar (1976), action-adventure yarns which readers of Haggard's novel should find particularly interesting. Although they are billed as prequels to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tarzan" novels, set circa 10,000 BC and involving a sophisticated civilization which flourishes around an inland sea in central Africa, a civilization which founded Tarzan's lost city of Opar, they are also, as it turns out, sequels to Allan and the Ice-Gods. The characters of Laleela and Pag recur  renamed by Farmer "Lalila" and "Paga"  and are imagined fleeing southward to Africa from the European locale of Haggard's novel. Pag, or Paga, carries with him the marvellous axe which he fashioned from meteoric metal.

When I interviewed Philip Jose Farmer many years ago, in 1976, he had this to say: "My Oparian civilization is not founded just on elements from Burroughs. It represents an amalgamation between Burroughs and Haggard. This huge axe-head made from meteorite iron actually first appeared in Haggard's Allan and the Ice-Gods. There are two characters in the first novel, Hadon of Ancient Opar, who appeared in Haggard's book, Lalila and the dwarf Paga  or Pag, as he was called in Haggard's novel. Now the hero of Haggard's novel has died in my novel; he gave the axe to Pag, who in turn has given it to Kwasin [one of Farmer's heroes]. Kwasin will have this huge axe through the series, and eventually it will go to Hadon's son, who, after the great catastrophe, will emigrate to the south and found the city of Kor which appeared in Haggard's She.

And this axe, if you're familiar with the Allan Quatermain novels, later on fell into the hands of Umslopogaas, the great Zulu hero, who shattered it in the city of Zu-Vendis, you remember [the reference is to the climax of Haggard's Allan Quatermain, 1887]. So... I'm tracing the history of this axe from Haggard to Burroughs and back to Haggard; and I'm incorporating Haggard's lost cities into Burroughs's lost cities."  Philip Jose Farmer, interviewed by David Pringle on 14th June 1976 Unfortunately, Mr Farmer (who is now 80 years of age) did not write a third "Opar" novel, and so we never did get to learn the story of Pag's axe in full; but the notion of it surviving to become Umslopogaas's great war-axe, the dreaded skull-tapper known as "Woodpecker," is pleasing, and I am sure Haggard himself would have appreciated it.

David Pringle, January 1999 Allan Quartermaine | Allan Quartermaine Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The character Quatermain (not "Quartermain", a common error) is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa. He supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, and he also favours native Africans' having a say in their affairs. Quatermain is an imperial outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable. He prefers to spend most of his life in Africa, where he grew up under the care of his widower father, a Christian missionary . In the earliest-written novels, native Africans refer to Quatermain as Macumazahn, meaning "Watcher-by-Night," a reference to his nocturnal habits and keen instincts. In later-written novels, Macumazahn is said to be a short form ofMacumazana, meaning "One who stands out." Quatermain is frequently accompanied by his native servant, the Hottentot Hans, a wise and caring family retainer from his youth. His sarcastic comments offer a sharp critique of European conventions.

In his final adventures, Quatermain is joined by two British companions, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good of the Royal Navy , and by his African friend Umslopogaas. Appearance and character Edit Quatermain is old, small, wiry, and unattractive, with a beard and short hair that sticks up. His one skill is his marksmanship, where he has no equal. Quatermain is aware that as a professional hunter, he has helped to destroy his beloved wild free places of Africa. In old age he hunts without pleasure, having no other means of making a living. About Quatermain's family, little is written. He lives at Durban, in Natal, South Africa. He marries twice, but is quickly widowed both times. He entrusts the printing of memoirs in the series to his son Harry, whose death he mourns in the opening of the novel Allan Quatermain. Harry Quatermain is a medical student who dies of smallpox while working in a hospital. As Haggard did not write the Quatermain novels in chronological order, he made errors with some details.

Quatermain's birth, age at the time of his marriages, and age at the time of his death cannot be reconciled to the apparent date of Harry's birth and age at death. Series Edit Although some of Haggard's Quatermain novels stand alone, there are two important series. In the Zulu trilogy, Marie (1912), Child of Storm (1913) and Finished (1917), Quatermain becomes ensnared in the vengeance of Zikali, the dwarf wizard known as "The-thing-that-should-never-have-been-born" and "Opener-of-Roads." Zikali plots and finally achieves the overthrow of the Zulu royal House of Senzangakona, founded by Shaka and ending under Cetewayo (Cetshwayo kaMpande) (Haggard's questionable spelling of Zulu names is used in the first instance).

These novels are prequels to the foundation pair, King Solomon's Mines (1885) and Allan Quatermain (1887), which describe Quatermain's discovery of vast wealth, his discontent with a life of ease, and his fatal return to Africa following the death of his son Harry. Allan Quatermain (1887) Edit Allan Quatermain Wiki has original text related to this article: Allan Quatermain (1887) At the beginning, Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umslopogas to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa into the territory of the Masai . While staying with a Scottish missionary , they are attacked by a Masai group, whom they overcome with heroism. They travel by canoe along an underground river to a lake in the kingdom of Zu-Vendis beyond a range of mountains. The Zu-Vendi are a warlike white race isolated from other African races. At the time of the British party's arrival, they are ruled jointly by two sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais.

The priests of the Zu-Vendi religion are hostile to the explorers, but the queens protect them. Both sisters fall passionately in love with Curtis; together with Nyleptha's rejection of the nobleman Nasta, a civil war breaks out. (Sorais and Nasta's forces fight against those of Nyleptha, Curtis and Quatermain). After a battle in which Queen Nyleptha's forces are outnumbered, she is victorious but threatened by the treachery of the priests, who plan to murder her in the palace. Umslopogaas and one loyal warrior manage to save her, while killing Nasta and the chief priest Agon. Defeated and jealous, Sorais takes her own life. Nyleptha and Curtis become queen and king, and Quatermain dies from a wound suffered in the battle. Chronological sequence of Haggard's Quatermain stories Edit Dates of events in Allan Quatermain's life are shown on the left; dates of publication in book form are shown on the right.

[1 ] [1] Allan Quatermain (centre) follows his men carrying a large quantity of ivory, inMaiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888) - drawing by Thure de Thulstrup 1817: Birth of Allan Quatermain 1835–1838: Marie (1912) 1882: The Ancient Allan (1920) 1883: Allan and the Ice-gods (1927) 1884–1885: Allan Quatermain (1887) c. 18 June 1885: Death of Allan Quatermain Use of Quatermain in other works The Allan Quatermain character has been expanded greatly by modern writers; this use is possibly due to Haggard's works passing into the public domain , much like Sherlock Holmes. Quatermain in the works of Farmer, Power and Castelli Edit Quatermain was placed by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family .

In the anthology Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, contributor Brad Mengel noted speculation that Quatermain had had a daughter who married a relation of Sherlock Holmes , and that Indiana Jones 's father was the product of this relationship.[ citation needed ] In his unpublished story, "The Judex Codex", the writer Dennis E. Power says that Quatermain had a daughter by Ayesha; this reconciles Quatermain's family tree with the Allan Quatermain comic book series created by Alfredo Castelli .[ citation needed ] (Castelli later moved the characters into the Martin Mystère series; Power's theories allowed Mystère and Allan Quatermain II to be identical first cousins without compromising any of the extant continuities). In the Haggard canon, Harry Quatermain is an only child. After the younger Quatermain's death, his father laments that he is an old man "without a chick or child to comfort me." But, the expansion of Allan Quatermain's lineage by Castelli, Mengel, and Power, and of his longevity by Alan Moore, as noted below, were studiously researched.

Rick Lai noted in his essay, "The Mystery of Harry Quatermain and Other Conundrums", several discrepancies throughout the Haggard series regarding Quatermain's wives. Lai suggested that Allan's son Harry was born far too early to be the young man who died before the opening of Allan Quatermain. Using Haggard's time line, he suggests that Harry, son of Allan and Stella Quatermain, fathered a son, also named Harry, whom Allan Quatermain raised as his own. Though Philip José Farmer did add Quatermain to his Wold Newton family, he did not write any theories regarding Allan's offspring. Farmer authorized Mengel's essay, and he has encouraged the above-mentioned authors who have borrowed and played with his work.[ citation needed ] Quatermain in the works of Moore and Miller Edit The character was used by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill in their series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , based on the premise that he faked his death to enjoy a quiet retirement, which was adapted to film in 2003.

In 2005, the first true full literary continuation of Allan Quatermain (as opposed to both graphic novels and various insertions into alternate universes) was published by Wildside Press and is titled The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life; Or, The Adventure of the Rose of Fire by Thos. Kent Miller. In 2011, this novel was significantly expanded with the revised title Allan Quatermain at the Crucible of Life. Both novels add chapters to the lives of both Quatermain and Sherlock Holmes . They are constructed as a Quatermain memoir and African adventure, in the manner that Haggard told all the Quatermain tales. Miller is also the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World; Or, The Adventure of the Wayfaring God, a pastiche of H. Rider Haggard 's She . Film and television incarnations Edit The character of Allan Quatermain has been portrayed in film and television by Richard Chamberlain , John Colicos , Sean Connery , Cedric Hardwicke , and Patrick Swayze .

Stewart Granger also played Quatermain in the 1950 Hollywood film adaptation of King Solomon's Mines , which was directed by Compton Bennett . None of the above works portray Haggard's Quatermain accurately in age, appearance, or character. Some even give his name erroneously as "Quartermain." Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a film released in 1987 which is freely adapted from the plot of Haggard's 1887 novel. He was also featured in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , released in 2003, where he served as the team leader and a mentor and father-figure to American secret agent Tom Sawyer , and the 2008 direct-to-DVD Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls . In 2010, it was announced that Sam Worthington would portray the character in an upcoming sci-fi adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. [2 ] Influences Edit The real-life adventures of Frederick Courtney Selous , the famous British big game hunter and explorer of Colonial Africa , inspired Haggard to create the Allan Quatermain character.

Haggard was also heavily influenced by other larger-than-life adventurers he later met in Africa, most notably the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham , by South Africa's vast mineral wealth, and by the ruin of ancient lost civilizations being uncovered in Africa, such as Great Zimbabwe . The similarities between Haggard's close friend Burnham and his Quatermain character are striking: both small and wiry Victorian adventurers in colonial Africa, both sought and discovered ancient treasures and civilizations, both battled large wild animals and native peoples, both were renowned for their ability to track, even at night, and both men had similar nicknames: Quatermain, "Watcher-by-Night"; Burnham, "He-who-sees-in-the-dark". [3 ] [4 ] [5 ] The beliefs and views of the fictional Quatermain are those of Haggard himself, and beliefs that were common among the 19th-century European colonists. These include conventional Victorian ideas concerning the superiority of the white race; an admiration for "warrior races," such as the Zulu; a disdain for natives corrupted by white influences; and a general contempt for Afrikaners (Boers). But in other ways Haggard's views were advanced for his times.

The first chapter of King Solomon's Mines contains an express denunciation of the use of the pejorative term "nigger." Quatermain frequently encounters natives who are more brave and wise than Europeans, and even women (black and white) who are smarter and emotionally stronger than men (though not necessarily as good; cf. the title character of "She"). Through the Quatermain novels and his other works, Haggard also expresses his own mysticism and interest in non-Christian concepts, particularly karma and reincarnation, though he expresses these concepts in such a way as to be compatible with the Christian faith. [4 ] [5 ] Influenced H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain , was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones , featured in Raiders of the Lost Ark , Temple of Doom , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull .

[6 ] [7 ] [8 ] The route to King Solomon's Mines described by Haggard in the novel of the same name was also referenced in the movie The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines ; specifically, the reference to Sheba's Breasts and Three Witches Mountain, which are geographical features mentioned by Quatermain in the novel. Bibliography This section is empty.You can help by adding to it . Books written by H. Rider Haggard "A Tale of Three Lions" "Long Odds" Allan Quatermain: Amazon.co.uk: H. Rider Haggard, Summit Classic Press: 9781480038905: Books By Cecilia S. Idiart on 14 Jan. 2004 Format: Paperback Allan Quatermain and his friends Sir Henry Curtis and John Good find themselves thirsty for adventure after their return to England from the caves of King Solomon and therefore decide to go back to Africa, this time not in search of hidden treasure, but of a white race supposed to inhabit the interior of the continent.

After quite an eventful journey, they reach Zu-Vendis, a fantastic country, where still more dangers are in store for them . . . The author succeeds in creating an adventure-packed atmosphere as well as in describing to the reader the beauties and marvels of the African landscapes and peoples. In comparison to "King Solomon's Mines", "Allan Quatermain" is a rather more personal work, in which the narrator criticises the civilized, modern world. I found it a great deal more moving and emotive, too. Altogether, a very nice book for the lovers of adventure who also have a tender heart.

Question: Allan Quartermain is the hero of which adventure novel, first published in 1895?
Answer: KING SOLOMON'S MINES