An English plant collector hears of a gigantic orchid worshipped by a hidden people, and hires the hunter Allan Quatermain to bring it back. With the Zulu Mavovo and the wily Hottentot Hans, they cross the slave roads beyond Kilwa, face the King Bausi, and find the eccentric missionary Brother John already on the trail.
Quatermain at his most dryly comic, though the racial attitudes are those of 1915. Download the free EPUB.