Child of Storm [Hardcover]

H. Rider Haggard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2008

They were fierce -- but they were loyal, and feared neither wounds nor doom. They listened to the dark murmuring of the witch-doctor; and chanting their terrible "Ingoma," at the King's bidding they went forth to slay fearlessly!

Two rushed at Quatermain with eyes bulging out of their sockets, shouting as they came, "Kill Umbelazi's white man! Kill! Kill!"

This gripping tale of Zikali, the "Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," and the fall of the House of Senzangakona, falls in the tradition of King Solomon's Mines -- and features the greatest fictional hero created by H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), Allan Quatermain.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Aegypan (April 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1606649736
• ISBN-13: 978-1606649732
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Child of the Storm, August 2, 2001

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This review is from: Child of Storm (Hardcover)

The story takes place in Zululand, Africa. It happens so that Allan Quatermain stops by his Zulu friend's kraal (to those of you who never read Haggard, Kraal=household) to find that yet another friend is madly in love with the well known beauty: Mameena, or, in other words, Child of the Storm. Allan is curious to see this well known Mameena, but his friend who is in love with Mameena (his name is Saduko) goes on a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for Mameena's dowry. After going with Saduko on his quest and helping him win 600 cattle, Allan meets Mameena, and determines she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and, though at that time Africans were thought of as savages (most unjustly, I have to add), Allan, after observing some treachery done by Mameena while pretending to be unconscious, after knowing she was false, cannot find any reason to resist her love to him, for indeed Mameena tries to engage him in a marriage, but Allan remembers her treachery and tells her no. Many adventures follow after that, until the Zulu King declares Mameena a witch, and Mameena pleads guilty. It is not the kind of Salem witchcraft that is talked about here. It is more like herb-knowledge and doctoring that the Zulus call witchcraft. After recieving her death sentence for many more offenses, including causing a civil war and it's outcome, Mameena makes a last wish. The last wish is... You'll have to figure out this as you read along with the mystery of Mameena's character. Suggested background books: Any Allan Quatermain book. Here are some Allan Quatermain titles: Allan and the Holy Flower, Marie, Allan's Wife, King Solomon's Mines, She and Allan, The Ancient Allan, Et cetera.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great work from a great griot., November 29, 2010

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This review is from: Child of Storm (Kindle Edition)

My 7th book by Haggard was not a disappointment. He writes as if creating a work of art. Let him lead your eyes around this canvas set in Africa complete with multi-dimensional characters who will both attract and repel. Be prepared for the depiction of tribal wisdom and folly sketched within and without.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First 5 given for an adventure fiction author, August 16, 2011

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This review is from: Child of Storm (Kindle Edition)

My bar is high when it comes to ratings. I try to compare all authors of all times. HR Haggard is at the top of the adventure fiction genre. He takes the reader into the unstable history of Africa where indiginous tribes, english, dutch and portugese settlers carved out a continent still in flux today. Haggard brings characters from all these groups to life with a realism rarely found. As described by the other reviewers this story is 2nd in a series. The books take the reader through the Zulu tribes violent history with the addition of fictional characters full of adventure, passion and commitment. This is a cannot stop reading book in a cannot stop reading series by a cannot stop reading author .