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The Ivory Child

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Chapter 1: Allan Gives a Shooting Lesson
21:34
Chapter 2: Allan Makes a Bet
37:05
Chapter 3: Miss Holmes
24:26
Chapter 4: Harût and Marût
31:00
Chapter 5: The Plot
23:58
Chapter 6: The Bona Fide Gold Mine
38:59
Chapter 7: Lord Ragnall's Story
31:01
Chapter 8: The Start
22:04
Chapter 9: The Meeting in the Desert
37:06
Chapter 10: Charge!
35:24
Chapter 11: Allan is Captured
28:44
Chapter 12: The First Curse
30:00
Chapter 13: Jana
31:15
Chapter 14: The Chase
28:23
Chapter 15: The Dweller in the Cave
35:36
Chapter 16: Hans Steals the Keys
25:37
Chapter 17: The Sanctuary and the Oath
43:40
Chapter 18: The Embassy
29:26
Chapter 19: Allan Quatermain Misses
39:14
Chapter 20: Allan Weeps
32:34
Chapter 21: Homewards
24:49

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The Ivory Child was published in 1916, set fictionally in the 1870s, and is one of the later Allan Quatermain novels. The plot moves between two settings. In the first half Quatermain is in England, hired by Lord Ragnall to investigate the kidnapping of his American-born wife by a strange cult. In the second half Quatermain is back in Africa, traveling north into the country of the Kendah, an inland people who worship a god in the shape of an elephant. The lost wife is at the centre of the cult.

Haggard mixes his usual elements here: a long African journey, set-piece battles, a holy elephant called Jana that Quatermain is supposed to kill, and a supernatural climax involving the ivory child amulet of the title. The Kendah and their priests Harut and Marut are among Haggard's more interestingly drawn fictional Africans, less stereotyped than some earlier books. The novel sits somewhere in the middle of the Quatermain ranking. Worth reading after the famous books for completists, or as a standalone if elephant gods and English country-house mystery sound appealing.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire.

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