Allan Quatermain Books in Order
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Allan Quatermain books in publication order
17 books
King Solomon's Mines
by H Rider Haggard
1885
Allan guides Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good into the African interior to find a missing man and a legendary treasure. It is the classic lost-world adventure, full of peril, marches, and battle.
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Allan Quatermain
by H Rider Haggard
1887
Grieving Allan joins Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good on a march toward a hidden white kingdom in the African interior. Lost cities, civil war, and hard-won survival drive the sequel.
Allan's Wife
by H Rider Haggard
1887
The title story follows Allan's early marriage and the sorrow that shapes his later life. Around it, Haggard adds more frontier adventure, hunting stories, and sharp reversals of fortune.
Maiwa's Revenge
by H Rider Haggard
1888
A hunting trip turns into a rescue mission and a war of vengeance after an African princess suffers a terrible loss. It is one of Quatermain's fastest and most action-heavy adventures.
Marie
by H Rider Haggard
1912
Quatermain looks back on his first love and brief marriage to Marie Marais against the violence of southern Africa. More romantic and personal than the early adventures, but still full of danger.
Child of Storm
by H Rider Haggard
1913
Allan becomes entangled in the ambitions of Mameena, a dazzling and destructive beauty whose choices help ignite wider conflict. It is part love story and part Zulu political tragedy.
Holy Flower
by H Rider Haggard
1915
Allan joins an expedition to recover a rare sacred flower and rescue a missing missionary's wife. Jungle travel, rival ambitions, and uncanny danger give this quest a distinctive twist.
The Ivory Child
by H Rider Haggard
1916
A dispute over a carved idol pulls Allan into a dangerous clash between tribes and a feared cult. It starts as a mission of peace and grows into a tense supernatural adventure.
Finished
by H Rider Haggard
1917
Allan is drawn into the final convulsions of Zulu power and the long shadow of prophecy. Darker and more reflective than most Quatermain tales, it mixes battle, politics, and fate.
The Ancient Allan
by H Rider Haggard
1920
Allan takes a mind-opening drug and remembers a former life in ancient Egypt. The result is a dreamlike mix of reincarnation, court intrigue, and old-world magic.
She and Allan
by H Rider Haggard
1921
Quatermain meets Ayesha, the immortal queen of She, in one of Haggard's biggest crossovers. The quest blends lost-city adventure, Zulu warfare, visions of the dead, and occult mystery.
Heu Heu
by H Rider Haggard
1924
Allan and Hans set out after the legendary Tree of Illusions and find a hidden realm ruled by fear and superstition. It is a compact late Quatermain adventure with a strong eerie streak.
Treasure of the Lake
by H Rider Haggard
1926
Allan journeys to a remote sacred lake where treasure, taboo, and a doomed love story are tangled together. The novel keeps the adventure high while giving the tale a quieter, melancholy mood.
Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods
by H Rider Haggard
1927
Under the influence of a strange drug, Allan relives the life of a Stone Age ancestor. Part fantasy and part prehistoric adventure, it pushes the series deep into myth and prehistory.
Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story
by H Rider Haggard
1980
This omnibus pairs Allan's tragic marriage story with companion adventures from his early life. It shows a more personal side of Quatermain alongside frontier danger, hunting, and loss.
Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others
by H Rider Haggard
2002
This collection gathers Allan Quatermain pieces alongside other Haggard stories. Expect big-game danger, hard choices, and the mix of action and uncanny atmosphere that suits his shorter fiction.
Hunter Quatermain's Story
by H Rider Haggard
2003
In this short Allan Quatermain tale, a hunt in Africa turns into a brutal test of nerve and survival. It is a compact, direct adventure told in Quatermain's dry, matter-of-fact voice.
Allan Quatermain books in chronological order

Allan Quatermain
by H Rider Haggard
1887Allan Quatermain, Book 2
Allan's Wife
by H Rider Haggard
1887Allan Quatermain, Book 3
Maiwa's Revenge
by H Rider Haggard
1888Allan Quatermain, Book 4
Marie
by H Rider Haggard
1912Allan Quatermain, Book 5
Child of Storm
by H Rider Haggard
1913Allan Quatermain, Book 6
Holy Flower
by H Rider Haggard
1915Allan Quatermain, Book 7
The Ivory Child
by H Rider Haggard
1916Allan Quatermain, Book 8
Finished
by H Rider Haggard
1917Allan Quatermain, Book 9
The Ancient Allan
by H Rider Haggard
1920Allan Quatermain, Book 10
She and Allan
by H Rider Haggard
1921Allan Quatermain, Book 11
Heu Heu
by H Rider Haggard
1924Allan Quatermain, Book 12
Treasure of the Lake
by H Rider Haggard
1926Allan Quatermain, Book 13
Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods
by H Rider Haggard
1927Allan Quatermain, Book 14
Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story
by H Rider Haggard
1980Allan Quatermain, Book 15
Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others
by H Rider Haggard
2002Allan Quatermain, Book 16
Hunter Quatermain's Story
by H Rider Haggard
2003Allan Quatermain, Book 17
Series background & context
The Allan Quatermain books are built around one of adventure fiction's great narrators, a hunter, trader, and guide who knows southern Africa better than almost anyone and is never quite as hard-boiled as he pretends. Allan likes to call himself a small, tired, practical man. Then he goes off and survives deserts, wars, caves, hidden kingdoms, and brushes with the supernatural.
He is always more vulnerable than he wants to admit.
The early core of the series is the classic expedition story. In King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain, Allan leads fellow Englishmen into the interior in search of treasure, missing relatives, and lost civilizations. Along the way he picks up some of the companions readers most remember, especially Sir Henry Curtis, Captain Good, the Zulu warrior Umslopogaas, and later the wily Hans. These books helped fix the template for the lost-world adventure: hard marching, maps, ruins, sudden battle, and a final push into the unknown.
But Quatermain is not just a treasure hunter. Several books look backward into his earlier life and make the series more personal. Allan's Wife, Marie, Child of Storm, and Finished bring in love, grief, frontier politics, and the long, violent history of the Zulu world around him. Those stories are less about one big discovery and more about what it costs to live through a place where private loyalties and public upheaval keep colliding.
Then Haggard starts to turn the dial toward the strange. Holy Flower and The Ivory Child begin as expeditions and slide toward cults, prophecy, and uncanny forces. The Ancient Allan and Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods go even further, using visions or mind-altering experiences to send Allan into ancient Egypt and even prehistory. By the time you reach She and Allan, the Quatermain books are happily crossing over with Haggard's other great myth, the story of Ayesha.
That mix of grit and weirdness is the series in a nutshell.
The tone moves around more than new readers sometimes expect. Some books are brisk and pulpy. Some are sadder and more reflective, especially the later ones, where Allan feels his age and looks back on the losses behind the legend. The language and assumptions are very much of their time, which can make parts of the series feel dated now, but Allan himself often comes across as more skeptical, humane, and self-aware than the stock imperial hero around him.
Start with King Solomon's Mines. It gives you the voice, the pace, and the basic Quatermain appeal right away. If that works for you, Allan Quatermain is the natural next step. After that you can branch out, toward the more personal Zulu books, toward the eerie later fantasies, or toward the shorter stories that fill in corners of Allan's long and battered life.
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