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Allan Quatermain #8: An Allan Quatermain Adventure of War, Prophecy, and Imperial Conflict
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerRomance
ISBN13: 9781604590562
Publisher: A & D Publishing
Published: Sep 3 2007
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Finished is a later Allan Quatermain adventure by H. Rider Haggard, bringing the famous hunter into a story of war, prophecy, witchcraft, vengeance, and imperial-era conflict in southern Africa. Set against the background of the Anglo-Zulu War and the downfall of Cetewayo's kingdom, the novel follows Quatermain as he is drawn into danger by Zikali, the mysterious and powerful Zulu wizard whose schemes, prophecies, and hidden motives shape the course of the story. Haggard combines battlefield adventure with occult atmosphere, political intrigue, frontier peril, and the sense of fatal design that gives the Allan Quatermain cycle much of its strange enduring power.
Haggard is best remembered for King Solomon's Mines, She, Allan Quatermain, Nada the Lily, and the broader Allan Quatermain sequence. His work influenced later adventure fiction, pulp fiction, fantasy, jungle adventure, and lost-world narratives, while also preserving the assumptions and tensions of the late Victorian and Edwardian imperial imagination. Haggard remains a major figure for readers interested in classic adventure fiction, nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century popular literature, African-set fiction, lost civilizations, expedition narratives, and the early roots of modern genre storytelling.
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