ALLAN QUATERMAIN

Allan Quatermain is an 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard. It is the sequel to Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines. Allan Quatermain is the second novel and fourth overall story in the eighteen-part series of the same name, though chronologically it is the final entry. Haggard wrote the book over his summer holiday in 1885 immediately after King Solomon's Mines. It was first serialized in Longman's Magazine before being published. The book, Science-Fiction: The Early Years, said about Allan Quatermain that the book was "one of Haggard's most successful works" and "the lost-race novel par excellence, setting up many of the motifs and fictional patterns that became an integral part of the subgenre"