Hunter Quatermain's Story

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the new film featuring Sean Connery as H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain (along with Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and other fictional heroes of the time) is creating renewed interest in this intrepid hunter explorer, over a century after his debut in King Solomon's Mines (1885). The most famous of Haggard's novels about him--including She, Allan Quatermain, and Allan and the Ice Gods--have been regularly reprinted for new generations of readers. But aside from these, there is also a novelette, Allan's Wife, and four short stories of his adventures that have never been collected in one volume, until now: "A Tale of Three Lions," "Hunter Quatermain's Story." "Long Odds," and "Magepa the Buck," Peter Haining introduces the stories with a summary of H. Rider Haggard's life (1856-1925) and career and provides information about the inspiration and creation of his famous hero. He also provides a chronology of the explorer's life linked to the novels and stories so that new readers can follow his career to his death in 1885. Includes the original magazine illustrations.