• 导读
  • The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa. He supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, and he also favours native Africans' having a say in their affairs. Quatermain is an imperial outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable. He prefers to spend most of his life in Africa, where he grew up under the care of his widower father, a Christian missionary.

  • 内容简介
  • 这部探险小说是哈格德成名作《所罗门王的宝藏》的续篇,受到广大读者,特别是青年人的热烈欢迎。

    Allan Quatermain is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard wrote the book over his summer holiday in 1885 immediately after King Solomon's Mines. It was first serialised in Longman's Magazine before being published.

  • 作者简介
  • 亨利·莱特·哈格德(1856年6月22日-1925年5月15日),英国小说家。他是英国维多利亚时代受欢迎的小说家,以浪漫的爱情与惊险的冒险故事为题材,代表作为《所罗门王的宝藏》。林纾最常翻译哈格德的小说。哈格德常年住在非洲,担任过南非纳塔尔省省长秘书。

    Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856–14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.

  • 目录
    • 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
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