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Marie

Henry Rider Haggard

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This is a superb sweeping romantic adventure story of how Alan Quatermain, hero of fourteen of Rider H Haggard's books, met, fell in love with and married his first wife. It is related from the perspective of old age and is set against the time of the Great Trek in the 1830s. The villains of the piece are truly villainous, Dingaan a portly traitorous despotic Zulu chief, and a Portuguese killer who constantly plots to kill our hero and steal his wife.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Pieter Retief thrust his big form in front of him rather rudely, and said with one of his hearty laughs:

"Allemachte! friend, let the missje wish a good journey to the young fellow who saved her life."

Next moment Hans, the Hottentot, screamed at the oxen in the usual fashion, and we rolled away through the gate.

But oh! if I had liked the Heer Retief before, now I loved him.





CHAPTER V. THE SHOOTING MATCH

My journey back to the Mission Station was a strange contrast to that which I had made thence a few days before. Then, the darkness, the swift mare beneath me rushing through it like a bird, the awful terror in my heart lest I should be too late, as with wild eyes I watched the paling stars and the first gathering grey of dawn. Now, the creaking of the ox-cart, the familiar veld, the bright glow of the peaceful sunlight, and in my heart a great thankfulness, and yet a new terror lest the pur. . . Read More

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Late last year, I purchased a collection of 60 plus novels written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard which included some of his most famous series of Lost World and Allan Quartermain works for 99 cents on my Kindle. Clearly, one would have to be affluent to purchase 60 Hard Copy books published in the earl

Look, I'm no bleeding heart liberal, and I cast a distinctly cold eye on attempts to pull down the statue of Cecil Rhodes which adorns my old Oxford college. But this was too much, even for a cranky old High Tory like me. The racism is just absurdly over the top and deeply unpleasant. The treatment

Highly enjoyable adventure read about the marital travails of Allan Quatermain. Is book 6 of the series and does not seem to be tied in with past books in that the story is a separate and distinct portion of his life - his marriage to the Boer woman Marie. I really liked this - it is the first book

This is one of the best works by H. Rider Haggard that I've read, and I've read a good number of them. This is the tale of how Allan Quatermain, hero of 14 of Haggard's books, including "King Solomon's Mines," met his first wife. It is set against the time of the Great Trek in the 1830s, and is jamm

A great read, with a somewhat tragic end.

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