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Allan Quatermain #2: The Second Allan Quatermain Adventure
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerRomance
ISBN13: 9781934451861
Publisher: A & D Publishing
Published: Jul 13 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Allan Quatermain returns in a sweeping adventure of grief, loyalty, danger, and impossible discovery. Restless after the events of King Solomon's Mines, Quatermain sets out again with Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good, this time pursuing rumors of a hidden white civilization deep in Africa. Their journey leads them through hardship, battle, strange customs, political intrigue, and one of Haggard's grandest lost-world visions.
As the second Allan Quatermain adventure, this novel broadens the scope of the series beyond treasure-hunting into a more melancholy and mythic form of imperial adventure. Quatermain is older, wearier, and more reflective than many adventure heroes, and that gives the story a different weight: the thrill of exploration is shadowed by mortality, memory, and the cost of a life spent in dangerous places.
First published in 1887, Allan Quatermain is a key work in the lost-world adventure tradition and an essential sequel to King Solomon's Mines. Readers of classic exploration fiction, African adventure stories, nineteenth-century adventure novels, and early lost-race fiction will find here one of the defining books in the genre.
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