The Ancient Allan

Book Details

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Author(s):

H Rider Haggard

First Pub:

1920

Genre(s):

Classics; Fantasy

First Read:

2017

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 18

1 - An Old Friend

2 - Ragnall Castle

3 - Allan Gives His Word

4 - Through the Gates

5 - The Wager

6 - The Doom of the Boat

7 - Bes Steals the Signet

8 - The Lady Amada

9 - The Messengers

10 - Shabaka Plights His Troth

11 - The Holy Tanofir

12 - The Slaying of Idernes

13 - Amada Returns to Isis

14 - Shabaka Fights the Crocodile

15 - The Summons

16 - Tanofir Finds His Broken Cup

17 - The Battle--and After

And After

Internal ID:

1965

Series:

<- Finished - She and Allan ->

Allan Quatermain*

#10 of 15

Allan Quatermain*

A series of adventure tales written in the 19th Century by H. Rider Haggard.

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1) King Solomon's Mines
2) Allan Quatermain
3) Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand
4) Allan's Wife and Other Tales
5) Marie
6) Child of Storm
7) The Holy Flower
8) The Ivory Child
9) Finished
10) The Ancient Allan
11) She and Allan
12) Heu-heu: or, The Monster
13) The Treasure of the Lake
14) Allan and the Ice-gods
15) Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain

First Sentence:

Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

But whatever Amada, I mean Lady Ragnall, said, there was plenty more Taduki, as I have good reason to know.

Allan Quatermain

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Synopsis not on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)

Descending the steep bank of the canal we came to the ford where the sand that had silted in was covered by not more than a foot of water. As we entered it, on the top of the further bank appeared a body of about thirty armed and mounted men, one of whom carried the Great King's banner, on which I noted was blazoned the very figures that were cut upon the cylinder. Now it was too late to retreat, so we rode through the water and met the soldiers. Their officer advanced, crying,

"In the name of the Great King, greeting, my lord Shabaka!

"In the name of the Great King, greeting!" I answered. "What would you with Shabaka, Officer of the King?"

"Only to do him honour. The word of the King has reached us and we come to escort you to the Court of Idernes, the Satrap of the King and Governor of Egypt who sits at Sais."

"That is not my road, Officer. I travel to Memphis to deliver the commands of the King to my cousin, Peroa, the ruler of Egypt under the King. Afterwards, perchance, I shall visit the high Idernes."

"To whom our commands are to take you now, my lord Shabaka, not afterwards," said the officer sternly, glancing round at his armed escort.

"I come to give commands, not to receive them, Captain of the King."

"Seize Shabaka and his servants," said the officer briefly, whereon the soldiers rode forward to surround us.

Added: 19-May-2017

Last Updated: 28-Nov-2019

Publications

01-Jan-2014

ePub Books

e-Book

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-2014

Format:

e-Book

Pages*:

356

Read:

Once

Internal ID:

1914

Publisher:

ePub Books

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

From epubbooks.com:

Sitting beside entrancing Lady Ragnall while the smoke of an ancient Egyptian herb grows thick around them, Allan Quatermain finds himself departing the world he know and entering into his strangest adventure. In a mystic transformation, he comes to his senses in an earlier incarnation . . . as Shabaka, hunter of lions – scion of the rulers of ancient Egypt, and lover of the Lady Amada, the Priestess of Isis

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Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

H Rider Haggard
Birth: 22 Jun 1856 Bradenham, Norfolk, England, UK
Death: 14 May 1925 London, England, UK.

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