A couple of weeks ago seraphimsigrist mentioned Rider Haggard's King Solomon's mines and his protagonist Allan Quatermain.

And so I pulled down my copy of Allan Quatermain and reread it, partly because it's the only one of Rider Haggard's books I possess, and when I read his books as a child it was one of my favourites. I was quite shocked to see that I'd ( Read more... )