A four volume collection of period adventures There are few who have heard of H. Rider Haggard"s novels who do not know his principal character-Allan Quatermain-the archetypal white man in Africa. Here was a hero who would take on a Zulu Impi, a charging rhinoceros, a giant gorilla God, a lost tribe, slavers, a magical eternal queen, malign spirits and still come back for more-bringing a host of readers with him. In short, Haggard knew what it took to write a good adventure which is why some of his books have been among the most popular in modern times. Haggard was a prolific author: aside from the Quatermain stories, he produced a sequence of novels concerning the ancient world, four featuring his other great character, Ayesha-"She who must be obeyed"-and a collection of adventure novels taking Africa as their stage but without the presence of Quatermain. All are excellent. In Haggard"s lifetime his public eagerly awaited his next book, but today, while many are aware of his...