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- The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. An 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.
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Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines, its one sequel Allan Quatermain (1887), twelve prequel novels and four prequel short stories, totalling eighteen works. [1]
Allan Quatermain, fictional character, an explorer and great white hunter who is the protagonist of King Solomon’s Mines (1885), a romantic adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, and a subsequent novel, Allan Quatermain (1887).
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The character Quatermain (not "Quartermain", a common error) 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 ...
Although some of Haggard's Quatermain novels stand alone, there are two important series. In the Zulu trilogy, Marie (1912), Child of Storm (1913) and Finished (1917), Quatermain becomes ensnared in the vengeance of Zikali, the dwarf wizard known as "The-thing-that-should-never-have-been-born" and "Opener-of-Roads." Zikali plots and finally achieve...
The Allan Quatermain character has been expanded greatly by modern writers; this use is possibly due to Haggard's works passing into the public domain, much like Sherlock Holmes.
The real-life adventures of Frederick Courtney Selous, the famous British big game hunter and explorer of Colonial Africa, inspired Haggard to create the Allan Quatermain character. Haggard was also heavily influenced by other larger-than-life adventurers he later met in Africa, most notably the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham, by South Af...
H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, featured in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The route to King Solomon's Mines described by Haggard in the novel...
Allan Quatermain(1887)Allan's Wife (1887)Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand(1888)The character Gus Brannhard adopts a Fuzzy and names him Allan Quatermain in H. Beam Piper's novel Fuzzies and Other People ISBN 0-441-26176-0
^^ Hough, Harold (January 2010). "The Arizona Miner and Indiana Jones". Miner News.^ a b Mandiringana, E.; T. J. Stapleton (1998). "The Literary Legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous". History in Africa (African Studies Association) 25: 199–218. doi:10.2307/3172188.JSTOR 3172188.King Solomon's Mines at Project GutenbergAllan Quatermain at Project GutenbergAllan's Wife at Project GutenbergMaiwa's Revenge at Project GutenbergAllan Quatermain (c. 1825-2009), also known as Macumazahn (Zulu for "Watcher-by-Night") was an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa who supported colonial efforts to spread civilization; he also favoured native Africans having a say in how their affairs are run. He became a quintessential imperial ...
Allan Quatermain is portrayed as a seasoned hunter and explorer in King Solomon's Mines. His encounters include dangerous wildlife, treacherous landscapes, and hostile tribes.
Allan Quatermain was an adventurer, big game hunter and member of the Murray Group. Allan Quatermain was born in England in the early 19th century. By the 1850s, he became an explorer and big game hunter, preferring to spend most of his time in the plains of Africa, rather than his native...
Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, though he also favours native Africans having a say in their affairs.
