Allan Quatermain # 5: An Allan Quatermain Adventure - Hardcover

Marie is a sweeping Allan Quatermain adventure of frontier danger, forbidden love, war, and survival in nineteenth-century South Africa. Long before many of the later exploits that made him famous, Allan Quatermain is a young hunter caught between private passion and public violence. His love for Marie Marais draws him into the conflicts of Boer family life, British colonial pressure, Zulu power, and the brutal uncertainties of a land where loyalty, courage, and survival are tested at every turn.

H. Rider Haggard gives the novel the large historical canvas and high adventure that made the Allan Quatermain stories enduring classics. Marie stands as one of the key prequel novels in the sequence, showing Quatermain in youth and revealing formative events that shaped the hunter, wanderer, and narrator readers meet elsewhere in Haggard's fiction. The story combines romance, battle, pursuit, landscape, political conflict, and the uneasy collision of cultures in colonial South Africa.

This edition is suited to readers of classic adventure fiction, lost-world and colonial adventure, historical romance, nineteenth-century popular fiction, and the Allan Quatermain series. Marie offers both an accessible adventure on its own and an important chapter in the larger Quatermain saga, making it valuable for readers following Haggard's great African adventure cycle.