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"On board a ship bound for Natal, adventurer Allan Quatermain meets Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good. His new friends have set out to find Sir Henry's younger brother, who vanished while seeking King Solomon's legendary diamond mines in the African interior. By strange chance, Quatermain has a map to the mines, drawn in blood, and agrees to join the others on their perilous journey. The travellers face many dangers on their quest - the baking...
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H. Rider Haggard's classic tale of fantasy and adventure set in a lost world ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queen. On the occasion of his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the locked iron box that is his birthright and finds an ancient potsherd. Following clues engraved on the relic, Vincey and the man who raised him, Cambridge professor Horace Holly, embark on a remarkable adventure that will take them from Victorian England to an uncharted...
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What begins as a simple mission to win a dowry for a bride spirals into political and social unrest as a famed hunter, Allan Quatermain, witnesses a nation slip into a civil war. Known for his outdoorsman skills, Quatermain's friend, Saduko, approaches him to ask for help winning a dowry for the woman he loves. Hoping to marry a beautiful and mysterious woman named Mameema, Saduko must obtain a sum of one hundred cattle to use as a dowry. Happy to...
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The heroes of King Solomon's Mines return to Africa in this action-packed sequel that inspired the film Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. Allan Quatermain, big-game hunter and explorer, has recently lost his son, Harry, to smallpox and is ready to get away from civilization. Rather than continue to wallow in grief surrounded by his trophies and guns in England, he instead chooses adventure and journeys to eastern Africa with his friends,...
5) Allan's Wife
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The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style. H. Rider Haggard was one of the best early writers of adventure fiction, back in a time when there was still wild adventure to be had. His Quatermain novels are not to be missed!
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And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumor with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.With She, H. Rider Haggard polished the literary "lost world" odyssey. Coming upon an underground civilization more ancient than the world of pharaohs, a group of adventurers catch the attention of Ayesha, the sorceress queen.Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls,...
7) Finished
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The legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain finds himself embroiled in the Anglo-Zulu War in this adventure novel by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
Explorer and big game hunter Allan Quatermain is on a shooting expedition in South Africa when he hears of unrest brewing between the Boers and the English. Sir Theophilus Shepstone is announcing his intention to annex the province of Transvaal for the British Empire-and the Boers are itching for a...
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When Brother John, a man known for wandering around Africa for years, tells Allan Quatermain about a rare and gorgeous orchid hidden in the wild flora of Africa, Quatermain is determined to find one. When he does, he travels to England and meets Stephen Somers, who collects special flowers. Somers was eager to buy the orchid, but after a mix up at an auction, he finds himself in trouble with his family. Nevertheless, Somers still desperately wants...
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A series of misadventures lead Englishman Thomas Wingfield to join a Spanish expedition to New Spain. There he witnesses the first meeting between the conquerers and the natives, and the many abuses of the latter at the hands of the former. He marries the daughter of a native king, only to see his native family killed. He wreaks his revenge before returning to England.
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When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years! One of the awakened sleepers, Lord Oro, is the last of the Sons of Wisdom, a superior race who'd relied on their advanced technology to subjugate the planet's lesser peoples. The other Atlantean is Oro's daughter, Yva, heiress...
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A psychic joins the hunt for a centuries-old treasure lost in Southern Africa in this classic romantic adventure by the author of She.
Following the death of her mother, Benita Clifford embarks on a ship from England to Africa to reunite with her estranged father. Along the way, she finds romance with a handsome Englishman aboard the ship, but tragedy strikes before they reach land . . . Benita arrives in Africa shaken and ready to start anew. After...
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A former British Army major voyages to West Africa to discover a lost city of gold in this adventure novel by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
Since a bout of blackwater fever robbed Maj. Alan Vernon of his military post, he has cast about for a new vocation. A business scheme in the Sahara seems like the perfect fit for his engineering skills, until revelations about his partners give him pause. To save his family estate, Vernon decides to undertake...
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An Egyptian prince and a Hebrew woman find love and adventure in this dramatic take on the classic Exodus tale from the author of King's Solomon's Mines.
Ana, a scribe on his deathbed, narrates this tale of ancient Egypt and the biblical Exodus of the Hebrews. Ana tells of his childhood friend, Prince Seti, heir apparent to the pharaoh, and his travails. First, he is forced to marry his cousin. Then, his father disinherits him for thwarting his...
14) Nada the Lily
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The son of a Zulu king teams up with a spectral wolf king to fight for honor and the woman he loves in this classic adventure tale by the author of She.
Nada the Lily tells the story of Umslopogaas, a fierce young Zulu warrior. He is the son of Chaka, the great Zulu king and general, and love of Nada the Lily, the most beautiful of the Zulu women. When Chaka orders Umslopogaas's death, the young man flees for his life, only to be carried away by...
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Two lovers search for each other through the wilderness of Southern Africa in this classic romantic adventure by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
Suzanne is a Dutch girl who has grown up among the natives of South Africa, who call her "Swallow." One day she finds Ralph Kenzie, an English castaway, washed up along the shore. They fall in love, but on their wedding day, she is kidnapped by the deadly Swart Piet. Years pass, and Ralph does not give...
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The People of the Mist, an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Lesser-known among Rider's works, this novel is perhaps more famous for being the origin of the phrase "Per Ardua ad Astra"-through hardship to the stars-than it is as a story that endures over a century after its publication.
Shaken by the loss of his fortune, abandoned by the woman he was to marry, Leonard Outram...
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Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. In this the fourth Quartermain book we watch with Allan as a Zulu Woman takes her revenge!
18) She and Allan
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It's a crossover for the ages-literally. In this 1921 prequel, H. Rider Haggard brings together his two most popular characters: the immortal "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed" of She and Ayesha, and Allan Quatermain, discoverer of King Solomon's Mines and globe-trotting inspiration for Indiana Jones. Spirit wages against body in the dark unknown of Africa.
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A married couple are caught up in a plot to overthrow Henry VIII in this romantic adventure classic by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
Cicely Foterell has loved her new husband, Sir Christopher Harflete, since childhood. But they live in an England in turmoil. It's 1536, and King Henry VIII has rebelled against Pope Clement VII and the Catholic Church.
Consequently, many of the clergy are rebelling against the king in a revolt coined the...
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This is a story about the beautiful and immortal Ayesha. The expedition is sent to an unexplored part of Africa, where the group finds Ayesha, who claims the expedition's leader is the reincarnation of her long-dead beloved. Ayesha became ageless and absolutely beautiful over 2 thousand years ago, plunging into a magical fire. Her only desire is to reunite with her beloved man. She makes the expedition leader to immerse himself as well.
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