The Ivory Child - Haggard, H. Rider
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H. Rider Haggard's book The Ivory Child featuring Allan Quatermain. Two foreigners inquire for Allan Quatermain by his name among the Africans, Macumazana, while he is being sought by two foreigners when Quatermain is visiting Lord Randall. The two guests are Harut and Marut, priests and physicians from the White Kendah People, and they are here to request assistance from Allan Quatermain. The Black Kendah people, worship an evil spirit, and the White Kendah people are at war. The biggest elephant they have ever seen is home to the god's spirit, and no man has ever been able to slay it, except…mehr

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H. Rider Haggard's book The Ivory Child featuring Allan Quatermain. Two foreigners inquire for Allan Quatermain by his name among the Africans, Macumazana, while he is being sought by two foreigners when Quatermain is visiting Lord Randall. The two guests are Harut and Marut, priests and physicians from the White Kendah People, and they are here to request assistance from Allan Quatermain. The Black Kendah people, worship an evil spirit, and the White Kendah people are at war. The biggest elephant they have ever seen is home to the god's spirit, and no man has ever been able to slay it, except for Allan Quatermain. Now, to stop the evil spirit from annihilating the entire White Kendah People, our brave hero must travel back to Africa.
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H. Rider Haggard was born on 22 June, 1856 in Braden ham, situated in the English area of Norfolk. His father, Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, was a lawyer, while his mother, Ella Dove ton Haggard, was an author herself. The couple had ten children, out of which Henry was conceived as the eighth. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English author who was known for his African thriller novel, 'Lord Solomon's Mines'. His father was a Norfolk advocate but he was denied an honourable men's schooling compared to his siblings due to his physical bluntness. At 19 years old, he started his vocation at the command of his father as an unpaid guide to Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal. Rider Haggard was married to a Norfolk beneficiary Marianna Louisa Margitson. They had four children named Jack, who died at the age of 10 due to measles, and three girls named Angela, Dorothy, and Lilias. Rider Haggard died at the age of 68 in London. His remains were cremated at St Mary's Church, Ditchingham. A rail route point of the Canadian National Railway in British Columbia has been named after him.