| Allan Quatermain Contributor(s): Rider Haggard, H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1537796135 ISBN-13: 9781537796130 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.92 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.51 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (1856 -1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, though he also favours native Africans having a say in their affairs. An 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. |
