Allan's Wife and Other Tales
Allan's Wife and Other Tales
Allan Quatermain is one of the great fictional adventurers, and these four tales reveal him more fully than any single novel could. In the title novella, we learn how the legendary hunter met and lost his only love, Stella, his childhood sweetheart who followed him into the African wilderness and paid the price for his restless spirit. The three shorter tales are hunting yarns narrated by Quatermain as an old man reflecting on his most dangerous encounters. A raging wounded buffalo. Seven lions. The bush that tests a man's courage and sometimes takes everything from him. Haggard writes with the authority of someone who knew the African landscape intimately, and his prose carries both the romance and the hard practicality of a vanishing world. These stories helped invent the adventure genre and influenced everyone from Tarzan to Indiana Jones, yet they remain stirring in their own right: tales of courage, loss, and the ancient bond between man and beast.
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