First published in 1889, ‘Allan’s Wife’ is the third novel Henry Rider Haggard’s celebrated
Allan Quatermain series, one of the 14 books that Haggard wrote depicting the adventures of Quatermain, great English hunter in the wilds of mysterious Africa. 
This book tells more stories of Quartermain’s time in South Africa–presenting his observations about two duelling witch doctors, his father’s death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.