 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | H. Rider Haggard |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | A. C. Michael |
| Language | English |
| Series | Allan Quatermain |
| Publisher | Cassell (UK) Longmans Green (US) |
Publication date | 1916 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Preceded by | The Treasure of the Lake |
| Followed by | Finished |
The Ivory Child is a novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. [1] It is the eighth Quatermain novel, and the twelfth Quatermain story overall.
While Quatermain visits Lord Ragnall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana—that is, asking for Allan Quatermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People and they have come to ask Allan Quatermain for his help. The White Kendah People are at war with the Black Kendah People who have an evil spirit for a god. And that spirit of the god resides in the largest elephant they have ever seen, an elephant that no man can kill—save Allan Quatermain. And now our intrepid hero must return to Africa and destroy this evil spirit before it kills every one of the White Kendah People.
The novel is the first in which Haggard deals with the theme of a person who loses his memory after a shocking event and then recovers it after a similar event.
E. F. Bleiler stated that although The Ivory Child had a similar plot to other Haggard novels, "the incidents are well-handled and the power of Fate is well indicated." [2]
The Ivory Child is perhaps the earliest example of the idea of the elephant graveyard being used in fiction.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre. It is the first of fourteen novels and four short stories by Haggard about Allan Quatermain. Haggard dedicated this book to his childhood idol Sir Humphry Davy.
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines, its one sequel Allan Quatermain (1887), twelve prequel novels and four prequel short stories, totalling eighteen works. An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.
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