Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Rate it:. Book 2. Allan Quatermain by H. Allan Quartermain is a sequel to the famous novel … More. Shelve Allan Quatermain. Book 3. Maiwa is a woman who is set on revenge, And what M… More. Book 4. Allan's Wife by H. The third novel H.
Rider Haggard's celebrated Alla… More. Shelve Allan's Wife. Book 5. Marie by H. Allan Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's mines… More. Shelve Marie. Book 6. Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard 's She. None of the above works portray Haggard's Quatermain accurately in age, appearance, or character. Some even give his name erroneously as "Quartermain. He was also featured in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , released in , where he served as the team leader and a mentor and father-figure to American secret agent Tom Sawyer , and the direct-to-DVD Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls.
In , it was announced that Sam Worthington would portray the character in an upcoming sci-fi adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. The real-life adventures of Frederick Courtney Selous , the famous British big game hunter and explorer of Colonial Africa , inspired Haggard to create the Allan Quatermain character.
Haggard was also heavily influenced by other larger-than-life adventurers he later met in Africa, most notably the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham , by South Africa's vast mineral wealth, and by the ruin of ancient lost civilizations being uncovered in Africa, such as Great Zimbabwe. The similarities between Haggard's close friend Burnham and his Quatermain character are striking: both small and wiry Victorian adventurers in colonial Africa, both sought and discovered ancient treasures and civilizations, both battled large wild animals and native peoples, both were renowned for their ability to track, even at night, and both men had similar nicknames: Quatermain, "Watcher-by-Night"; Burnham, "He-who-sees-in-the-dark".
The beliefs and views of the fictional Quatermain are those of Haggard himself, and beliefs that were common among the 19th-century European colonists. These include conventional Victorian ideas concerning the superiority of the white race; an admiration for "warrior races," such as the Zulu; a disdain for natives corrupted by white influences; and a general contempt for Afrikaners Boers. But in other ways Haggard's views were advanced for his times.
The first chapter of King Solomon's Mines contains an express denunciation of the use of the pejorative term "nigger. Through the Quatermain novels and his other works, Haggard also expresses his own mysticism and interest in non-Christian concepts, particularly karma and reincarnation, though he expresses these concepts in such a way as to be compatible with the Christian faith. The route to King Solomon's Mines described by Haggard in the novel of the same name was also referenced in the movie The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines ; specifically, the reference to Sheba's Breasts and Three Witches Mountain, which are geographical features mentioned by Quatermain in the novel.
Allan Quartermaine Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Allan Quartermaine. Edit source History Talk 0. However, the massacre proves to be a bloody revenge assault on the docksides by the crew of the Nautilus, now commanded by Nemo's daughter, Janni. In the 40s, Carnacki resigns from the League due to age and declining health.
Disturbed by this prediction, Murray and Quatermain leave Britain for America. In America the two have adventures battling a descendent of Fu Manchu. They also have an adventure transcribed on a record. Allan and Mina eventually go to the Blazing World, living there for many years. Murray encounters Jimmy Bond who takes her to the Ministry of Love and attempts to rape her. Together they escape England with it and go to the Blazing World.
Allan is seen with Orlando in Paris of where the two engaged in sexual games of dominance and submission. Mina does not accompany them, and it is hinted that she had began drifting apart from both Orlando and Allan. In the year , Mina forms a League with the surviving members of the Second Murray Group in the hopes of preventing the birth of the Moonchild whom is destined to bring forth a dreadful new aeon.
Allan, just like Orlando, is rather dismisses much of Mina's attempts to adapt to the times and the entire era as being hollow in their peace objectives. Mina thwarts Haddo in a psychic battle, but then succumbs to insanity when she faces a swarm of bats in a mentally weakened state. Allan and Orlando search for Mina in Hyde Park, but cannot find her because she had been taken to a lunatic asylum. Eight years later, in , Allan had become addicted to drugs again, heroin this time, causing a rift between him and Orlando Allan tried to sell Excalibur for drug money.
In , Allan is lost in his addiction, and unable to recover from the disappearance of Mina. After Orlando's release from the asylum, Mina also finds an Allan and he asks her to return, but he also flees from her. Allan considers suicide and puts a gun in his own head, but can not bring himself to the trigger. Promising not to die like a coward, he meets Orlando and Mina in their battle against the Antichrist, and shoots the monster with an elephant gun.
However, the Antichrist simply regenerates from his wounds and kills Allan. After the battle ended, Allan's body is brought to ZuVendis, Africa, and buried in an existing grave dating from the time he originally faked his death.
Others buried in the graveyard were:. In this version, he is residing in a British hotel in Kenya. Rather than becoming an opium addict. Here Allan is the leader of the League instead of Mina Murray. He becomes a mentor-of-sorts to Tom Sawyer and dies in the film's climax.
Connery and the film's director Stephen Norrington failed to cooperate and frequently argued during the film's production, and the film was Connery's last before his retirement. Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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