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Allan Quatermain Books in Order

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See the Allan Quatermain books in order by H Rider Haggard, with short summaries, reading order, series background, and help deciding where to start.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

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Allan Quatermain books in publication order

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17 books

1

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.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

7

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.

8

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.

9

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.

10

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.

11

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.

12

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.

13

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.

14

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.

15

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.

16

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.

17

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

  1. Book cover for "Allan Quatermain"

    Allan Quatermain

    by H Rider Haggard

    1887Allan Quatermain, Book 2
  2. Book cover for "Allan's Wife"

    Allan's Wife

    by H Rider Haggard

    1887Allan Quatermain, Book 3
  3. Book cover for "Maiwa's Revenge"

    Maiwa's Revenge

    by H Rider Haggard

    1888Allan Quatermain, Book 4
  4. Book cover for "Marie"

    Marie

    by H Rider Haggard

    1912Allan Quatermain, Book 5
  5. Book cover for "Child of Storm"

    Child of Storm

    by H Rider Haggard

    1913Allan Quatermain, Book 6
  6. Book cover for "Holy Flower"

    Holy Flower

    by H Rider Haggard

    1915Allan Quatermain, Book 7
  7. Book cover for "The Ivory Child"

    The Ivory Child

    by H Rider Haggard

    1916Allan Quatermain, Book 8
  8. Book cover for "Finished"

    Finished

    by H Rider Haggard

    1917Allan Quatermain, Book 9
  9. Book cover for "The Ancient Allan"

    The Ancient Allan

    by H Rider Haggard

    1920Allan Quatermain, Book 10
  10. Book cover for "She and Allan"

    She and Allan

    by H Rider Haggard

    1921Allan Quatermain, Book 11
  11. Book cover for "Heu Heu"

    Heu Heu

    by H Rider Haggard

    1924Allan Quatermain, Book 12
  12. Book cover for "Treasure of the Lake"

    Treasure of the Lake

    by H Rider Haggard

    1926Allan Quatermain, Book 13
  13. Book cover for "Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods"

    Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods

    by H Rider Haggard

    1927Allan Quatermain, Book 14
  14. Book cover for "Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story"

    Allan's Wife, with Hunter Quatermain's Story

    by H Rider Haggard

    1980Allan Quatermain, Book 15
  15. Book cover for "Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others"

    Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others

    by H Rider Haggard

    2002Allan Quatermain, Book 16
  16. Book cover for "Hunter Quatermain's Story"

    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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