The Ancient Allan
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About This Book
A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.Excerpt:"Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose, passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well satisfied with the lot that Fate h...
Chapters (19)
- The Ancient Allan
- First Published 1920.
- CHAPTER I. AN OLD FRIEND
- CHAPTER II. RAGNALL CASTLE
- CHAPTER III. ALLAN GIVES HIS WORD
- CHAPTER IV. THROUGH THE GATES
- CHAPTER V. THE WAGER
- CHAPTER VI. THE DOOM OF THE BOAT
- CHAPTER VII. BES STEALS THE SIGNET
- CHAPTER VIII. THE LADY AMADA
- CHAPTER IX. THE MESSENGERS
- CHAPTER X. SHABAKA PLIGHTS HIS TROTH
- CHAPTER XI. THE HOLY TANOFIR
- CHAPTER XII. THE SLAYING OF IDERNES
- CHAPTER XIII. AMADA RETURNS TO ISIS
- CHAPTER XIV. SHABAKA FIGHTS THE CROCODILE
- CHAPTER XV. THE SUMMONS
- CHAPTER XVI. TANOFIR FINDS HIS BROKEN CUP
- CHAPTER XVII. THE BATTLE—AND AFTER
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