The Ancient Allan

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, a

Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) was a prolific English author famous for adventure novels set in exotic lands like Africa and Iceland. He served as the lieutenant - governor of the Colony of Natal, where earned first hand experience of Africa that finds reflection in his works, but he was also a strong voice in favour of agricultural reforms in England.