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The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines. In this adventure novel named after him, Quatermain longs for a return to the wilderness after losing his son. He talks a number of companions into joining him and they journey inland from Africa's east coast, where they are attacked by Masai warriors.
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Table of contents
- ALLAN QUATERMAIN
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter I - The Consul's Yarn
- Chapter II - The Black Hand
- Chapter III - The Mission Station
- Chapter IV - Alphonse and His Annette
- Chapter V - Umslopogaas Makes a Promise
- Chapter VI - The Night Wears On
- Chapter VII - A Slaughter Grim and Great
- Chapter VIII - Alphonse Explains
- Chapter IX - Into the Unknown
- Chapter X - The Rose of Fire
- Chapter XI - The Frowning City
- Chapter XII - The Sister Queens
- Chapter XIII - About the Zu-Vendi People
- Chapter XIV - The Flower Temple
- Chapter XV - Sorais' Song
- Chapter XVI - Before the Statue
- Chapter XVII - The Storm Breaks
- Chapter XVIII - War! Red War!
- Chapter XIX - A Strange Wedding
- Chapter XX - The Battle of the Pass
- Chapter XXI - Away! Away!
- Chapter XXII - How Umslopogaas Held the Stair
- Chapter XXIII - I Have Spoken
- Chapter XXIV - By Another Hand
- Note by George Curtis, Esq.
- Authorities
- Endnotes
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