Allan Quatermain

This sequel to King Solomons Mines is based upon Rider Haggards own experiences in Africa. On their search for a white race reputed to live near Mount Kenya, Allan Quatermain and his companions undergo a series of dangerous and thrilling adventures. The dramatic and often poetic story also reveals Victorian preoccupations with evolution and race, sexuality and the `New Woman. The text is thaf the first English book edition with the more important corrections and revisions from the serialization of the novel in Longmans Magazine given in the Explanatory Notes.