Hunter Quatermain's story : the uncollected adventures of Allan Quatermain / H. Rider Haggard ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Haining.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925

Contributor:

Haining, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adventure stories, English.

Explorers.

Great Britain.

Explorers--Great Britain--Fiction.

Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Quatermain, Allan.

Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character).

Genre:

Adventure stories, English.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Peter Owen ; Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2003.

Summary:

OVER a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter -- explorer Allan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines (1885), he remains one of the great heroes of literature. The most famous of H. Rider Haggard's dozen novels about him -- which include She, Allan Quatermain and Allan and the Ice Gods -- have been regularly reprinted for new generations of readers. But there is also a novelette, Allan's Wife, and four short stories of his adventures which have never been collected in one volume. Peter Haining at last brings these stories together, introducing the tales with a resume of the author's life and career from 1856 to his death in 1925. He also supplies a chronology of the fictional explorer's life linked to the novels and stories so that new readers can follow his career to his death in 1885.

Contents:

The Allan Quatermain Saga: A chronology of the novels and short stories 33

Hunter Quatermain's Story 35

Long Odds 53

A Tale of Three Lions 69

Magepa the Buck 101

Zikali the Wizard 115

Allan's Wife 129.

ISBN:

0720611822

OCLC:

50582263