Long before King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain is a teenager on the Cape frontier, learning French so that he can court Marie Marais, the daughter of a Huguenot Boer who distrusts the English. Her cousin Hernando Pereira is his rival, and the story carries them through a shooting match, native raids and the trek north into Zulu country.
A 1912 prequel that fills in Quatermain’s youth; its colonial and racial attitudes are those of its author and his day. Download the free EPUB.
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