Allan Quatermain

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Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was the sixth child of a Norfolk farmer's family of ten. He was not thought clever enougn for a University education, but at tne age of eighteen he got a post on the staff of the new Lieutenant-Governor of Natal. Here he came to know and love the Zulu people who figure so prominently in his books. After his marriage, he left Government service to try to settle down to African farming, but later returned to England to study for the Bar. He also began to write. His first two works of fiction, serious novels, were not successful. Then in 1886 his brother Arthur "betted him a bob " he could not write " anything half as good as Treasure Island" ; the result was King Solomon's Mines, which he wrote in six weeks. Allan Quatermain, Jess and She followed in quick succession, and romances of adventure continued to flow from his pen throughout his life, despite personal losses and tragedy. Not content with his knowledge of Africa, he... Tovább

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obout the Author
Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was the sixth child of a Norfolk farmer's family of ten. He was not thought clever enougn for a University education, but at tne age of eighteen he got a post on the staff of the new Lieutenant-Governor of Natal. Here he came to know and love the Zulu people who figure so prominently in his books. After his marriage, he left Government service to try to settle down to African farming, but later returned to England to study for the Bar. He also began to write. His first two works of fiction, serious novels, were not successful. Then in 1886 his brother Arthur "betted him a bob " he could not write " anything half as good as Treasure Island" ; the result was King Solomon's Mines, which he wrote in six weeks. Allan Quatermain, Jess and She followed in quick succession, and romances of adventure continued to flow from his pen throughout his life, despite personal losses and tragedy. Not content with his knowledge of Africa, he journeyed to Egypt, Iceland and Mexico for bacKground for his books. He farmed his own estate in Norfolk and wrote an agricultural survey of England. He gave his friend Rudyard Kipling the idea for The Jungle Book, and campaigned on behalf of the Salvation Army—indeed a many-sided man.
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When Allan Quatermain, Sir Henry Curtis and Commander Good set sail for Lamu, their objective was Mt. Lekakisera and the Africa beyond it, where, to the best of Quatermain's belief, no white man had ever been—unless that rumour of a great white race lost centuries before in that unknown interior should prove true.
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