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Allan's Wife and Other Tales

Gelesen von Phil Benson

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In 1885, H. Rider Haggard introduced Allan Quatermain, elephant hunter extraordinaire, in his best-selling African adventure novel 'King Solomon's Mines'. Haggard went on to publish twelve Quatermain novels and several novellas and short stories, including the four in this collection. 'Allan's Wife' explains how Quatermain became a hunter early in life and recounts the tragedy of his brief marriage to Stella, his childhood sweetheart. The three shorter tales are hunting yarns narrated by Quatermain as an old man. In 'Hunter Quatermain', Allan is faced with a raging wounded buffalo and in 'A Tale of Three Lions' and 'Long Odds', he takes on no less than seven lions. First published in 1889, this collection was re-published as the twenty-fourth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in 1980. - Summary by Phil Benson (8 hr 15 min)

Chapters

Dedication

3:38

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Allan's Wife: 1. Early Days

19:42

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Allan's Wife: 2. The Fire-fight

23:27

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Allan's Wife: 3. Northwards

27:50

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Allan's Wife: 4. The Zulu Impi

28:35

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Allan's Wife: 5. The End of the Laager

29:35

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Allan's Wife: 6. Stella

34:06

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Allan's Wife: 7. The Baboon-woman

21:49

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Allan's Wife: 8. The Marble Kraals

19:45

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Allan's Wife: 9. "Let us Go in, Allan"

19:54

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Allan's Wife: 10. Hendrika Plots Evil

29:43

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Allan's Wife: 11. Gone!

18:17

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Allan's Wife: 12. The Magic of Indaba-Zimbi

22:31

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Allan's Wife: 13. What Happened to Stella

19:02

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Allan's Wife: 14. Fifteen Years After

19:27

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Hunter Quatermain's Tale

42:56

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A Tale of Three Lions: Chapter 1

21:58

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A Tale of Three Lions: Chapter 2

23:42

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A Tale of Three Lions: Chapter 3

29:20

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Long Odds

40:22

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