The Spectator, December 13th, 2003
Action man and teller of tales HUNTER QUATERMAIN'S STORY: THE UNCOLLECTED ADVENTURES OF ALLAN QUATERMAIN by H. Rider Haggard, selected by Peter Haining Peter Owen, £12.50, pp. 256, ISBN 0720611822 The other day I came on an old exerisc book dating from the early 940s in which my brother, then ged nine, had embarked on one of his many unfinished novels. The missionary looked out of the window of his little hut deep in the African jungle. 'The savidges are attacking, Mary,' he cried. 'Quick, pass me the Martini Henry rifle and then the elephant gun. I will show them what happens when they att...
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