Novels I

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains four of his most famous novels about the life and adventures of Allan Quatermain. Maiwa's Revenge involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter. The Allan’s Wife tells a story of Quartermain's time in South Africa presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father's death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella. In Marie Allan is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot.