The Ancient Allan - H.Rider Haggard

A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain,\n back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.\n Excerpt:\n "Now I, Allan Quatermain,\n 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,\n for after all England is strange to me.\n I grow elderly.\n I have, as I suppose, passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well satisfied with the lot that Fate has given to my unworthy self.\n To begin with, I am still alive and in health when by all the rules I should have been dead many times over.\n I suppose I ought to be thankful for tha