Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2105251 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Synopsis
This book -- one of the fourteen that Haggard wrote about English hunter Allan Quatermain in the mysterious wilds of Africa -- concerns an expedition for rare and precious flower ...and the search for the kidnapped wife of one of Quatermain's friends. Tremendous battles ensue: by the time it's all said and done, we've run up against a giant gorilla god, cannibals, slave traders, a very suspenseful lake chase, evil wizards, a hidden volcanic sanctuary ...and more!

Customer Reviews

The next link in the quatermain chain
On this adventure allan is after a flower, not what you would expect from an ivory hunter is it. Joinimng him on his quest is Stephen Somer and crazy orchidist just disowned by his ather for spending lots of money on a flower. The quest takes the team and their hunters into the land belonging to the mazitu. After passing through the mazitu land they reach pongo. A land of cannibals and horrifice gods. Many adventures follow. It lacks the perfect finish from allan quatermain and other books but it is never the less an exciting read and weel worth a look in from any allan quatermain fan.

Allan and the Holy Flower
Not quite in the league of 'She' or 'King Solomon's Mines' (it lacks the mythological frisson, the arduousness and epicness of the journey to the main scene of action), but it does contain elements of ironic humour directed mainly against the narrator Allan Quatermain. Some of the characters are made of cardboard but interestingly they are saved on more than one occasion by the wiliness of the Hottentot Hans, a man with an amusing if squint-eyed understanding of the Christianity he has been converted to (he plays a similar role in the follow-up 'The Ivory Child'). An ideal novel for a TV six-parter.