Over a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter explorer Allan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines, he remains one of the great heroes of literature whose adventures have been adapted for cinema and television. This new anthology brings to light a novelette and four short stories which have never been collected in one volume. Introducing the tales with a detailed resume of the author's life and career, this compendium provides information

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"Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and Allan Quatermain are travelling to the mysterious, unmapped heart of Africa. Sir Henry wants to find his missing brother. Quatermain wants to find King Solomon's secret treasure. Is Sir Henry's brother still alive? Will they find King Solomon's treasure? Does the treasure even exist?"--P. [4] of cover.

Wishbone imagines himself as Quatermain, the main character in the novel King Solomon's mines.

A fortune hunter teams up with a woman in order to help find her missing father.

Quatermain, a quick-witted, fast-talking soldier of fortune has a soft spot for damsels in distress. Jessie Huston asks him to help find her father who has been kidnapped by an evil German colonel and a Turkish cutthroat. Before arriving at the fabled goal, there are fights on and under a speeding train, hungry natives, hungrier crocodiles and much more.

Adventurer Allan Quatermain is hired by an Englishwoman to lead the hunt for her missing husband in an uncharted region of Africa.