Length11h 3m
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. Haggard wrote the book over his summer holiday in 1885 immediately after King Solomon's Mines. At the beginning, Allan Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umslopogaas to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa into the territory of the Maasai. While staying with a Scottish missionary, Mr. Mackenzie, they are attacked by a Maasai group, whom they overcome heroically. They travel by canoe along an underground river to a lake (which turns out to be the sacred lake of Zu-Vendis) in the kingdom of Zu-Vendis beyond a range of mountains. The Zu-Vendi are a warlike race of white-skinned people isolated from other African races; their capital is called Milosis. At the time of the British party's arrival, they are ruled jointly by two sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais. The priests of the Zu-Vendi religion are hostile to the explorers as they had killed hippopotamuses — animals sacred to the Zu-Vendis — on their arrival, but the queens protect them. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length11 hrs 3 mins
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Publish dateSep 23, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
2CHAPTER I THE CONSUL'S YARN
3CHAPTER II THE BLACK HAND
4CHAPTER III THE MISSION STATION
5CHAPTER IV ALPHONSE AND HIS ANNETTE
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6CHAPTER V UMSLOPOGAAS MAKES A PROMISE
7CHAPTER VI THE NIGHT WEARS ON
8CHAPTER VII A SLAUGHTER GRIM AND GREAT
9CHAPTER VIII ALPHONSE EXPLAINS
10CHAPTER IX INTO THE UNKNOWN
11CHAPTER X THE ROSE OF FIRE
12CHAPTER XI THE FROWNING CITY
13CHAPTER XII THE SISTER QUEENS
14CHAPTER XIII ABOUT THE ZU-VENDI PEOPLE
15CHAPTER XIV THE FLOWER TEMPLE
16CHAPTER XV SORAIS' SONG
17CHAPTER XVI BEFORE THE STATUE
18CHAPTER XVII THE STORM BREAKS
19CHAPTER XVIII WAR! RED WAR!
20CHAPTER XIX A STRANGE WEDDING
21CHAPTER XX THE BATTLE OF THE PASS
22CHAPTER XXI AWAY! AWAY!
23CHAPTER XXII HOW UMSLOPOGAAS HELD THE STAIR
24CHAPTER XXIII I HAVE SPOKEN
25CHAPTER XXIV BY ANOTHER HAND
26NOTE BY GEORGE CURTIS, Esq.
27AUTHORITIES
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