Overview
Allan Quatermain enters one of H. Rider Haggard's most turbulent African adventures in Child of Storm, a novel of beauty, ambition, prophecy, tribal conflict, and political upheaval in Zululand. Quatermain becomes entangled in the fate of Mameena, the brilliant and dangerous woman whose presence unsettles everyone around her, and in the wider struggle between rival powers within the Zulu kingdom. Desire, loyalty, superstition, courage, and calculation collide as private passions become inseparable from public violence.Set against the conflict between Cetshwayo and Umbelazi, sons of the Zulu king Mpande, the novel places Quatermain at the edge of events shaped by dynastic rivalry, battlefield danger, and the mysterious influence of Zikali. Haggard combines historical adventure, romance, prophecy, and fatalism in a story that belongs to the larger Quatermain cycle while standing strongly on its own. The result is a classic adventure novel in which human desire and political destiny move together toward catastrophe.This A&D edition presents Child of Storm as part of the Allan Quatermain adventure sequence, suited to readers of classic adventure fiction, historical adventure, African expedition tales, lost-world romance, imperial-era fiction, and the novels of H. Rider Haggard. For those following Quatermain across the series, it is an essential entry in the Zulu sequence, linking personal drama to the larger collapse and transformation of a kingdom.
- | Author: H. Rider Haggard
- | Publisher: A & D Publishing
- | Publication Date: Aug 09, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 168 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1604590319
- | ISBN-13: 9781604590319
