Allan Quatermain #9: An Allan Quatermain Adventure - Paperback

by H. Rider Haggard (Author)

Allan Quatermain returns to Africa in The Ivory Child, a fast-moving adventure of prophecy, danger, tribal war, hidden powers, and one legendary elephant no ordinary hunter can kill. When two mysterious visitors come seeking "Macumazana," the name by which Quatermain is known in Africa, they bring a desperate request from the White Kendah people. Their enemies, the Black Kendah, worship a terrifying elephant as the vessel of a destructive spirit, and only Quatermain is believed capable of ending its power.

H. Rider Haggard builds the novel from the elements that made the Allan Quatermain stories enduring adventure classics: perilous journeys, secretive peoples, strange rites, violent pursuit, moral testing, and the pull of fate in a landscape where ordinary European certainty quickly fails. The quest becomes more than a hunt. It draws Quatermain into a conflict shaped by belief, fear, courage, loyalty, and the burden of being treated as the one man who may stand between a people and destruction.

This A&D edition presents The Ivory Child as part of the Allan Quatermain adventure sequence, suited to readers of classic adventure fiction, lost-world fiction, African expedition tales, imperial-era adventure, historical fantasy, and the fiction of H. Rider Haggard. For those following Quatermain across the series, it offers another vigorous entry in one of the foundational adventure cycles of popular literature.