Allan Quatermain, written by H. Rider Haggard, is the sequel novel to King Solomon's Mines. The book starts out with the death of Allan's son which leads to his desire to get back into the wild as he leads a group into the territory of the Maasai. H. Rider Haggard was a prominent English writer near the turn of the 20th century. Haggard was also involved in reforming agriculture throughout the British Empire. Today he is best known for influential adventure and lost world novels such as King Solomon's Mines and She: A ...
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Allan Quatermain, written by H. Rider Haggard, is the sequel novel to King Solomon's Mines. The book starts out with the death of Allan's son which leads to his desire to get back into the wild as he leads a group into the territory of the Maasai. H. Rider Haggard was a prominent English writer near the turn of the 20th century. Haggard was also involved in reforming agriculture throughout the British Empire. Today he is best known for influential adventure and lost world novels such as King Solomon's Mines and She: A History of Adventure.
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Written in 1887, Allan Quatermain is the sequel to the adventure novel King Solomon's Mines. In the sequel the major characters (Allan Quatermain, Sir Henry Curtis, and Captain Good) of the previous book are reunited and, eager for adventure, begin another expedition in search of a legendary lost civilization deep in Africa; the three Englishmen are joined by the Zulu warrior Umslopogaas. The adventurers find their lost civilization but only after an arduous, exciting, and dangerous journey. Of course, once the explorers arrive in the lost civilization, the adventure and drama continue to the very end. As in King Solomon's Mines the story is narrated by hunter, explorer, and adventurer Allan Quatermain; he is a little more philosophical and reflective in his narrative in this book. I did like this book a great deal as it is a good balance of adventure and light romance. One does not have to read King Solomon's Mines to understand Allan Quatermain but readers will get a lot more out of the sequel if they have read the previous book. In sum, Allan Quatermain is a good sequel to a good book.