Allan Quatermain Stories
Haggard’s most famous creation, the weathered big-game hunter Allan Quatermain, returns in a set of shorter adventures gathered from across the author’s career. Quatermain narrates in the plain, unhurried voice of a man who has seen too much, recounting hunts, expeditions, and strange encounters in the veld and the wilds of southern Africa. These pieces sit alongside the novels that made him a household name in Victorian England, and they show Haggard working in miniature, trading sweeping quests for tight, self-contained tales of danger and nerve. Readers who first met Quatermain in King Solomon’s Mines will find the same mix of courage, superstition, and hard-won survival. Available free as a PDF and EPUB edition.
About the Author
Henry Rider Haggard was born in 1856 in Norfolk, England, and came from a large landed family that had largely exhausted its money by the time he was an adult. He was not a strong student and was the only Haggard son sent out into…
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