Allan Quatermain is an 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard (Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925)). It is the sequel to Haggard’s 1885 novel King Solomon’s Mines.
Allan Quatermain’s only son has died and he longs to get back into the wilderness. He persuades Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umslopogaas to accompany him, and they set out from the coast of east Africa into the territory of the Maasai. While staying with a Scottish missionary, Mr. Mackenzie, they run into a group of Maasai who kidnap Mr. Mackenzie’s daughter.
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), KBE (Knight of the British Empire) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre.
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