Download The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard. A classic 1916 Allan Quatermain adventure of the White Kendah, the Ivory Child, Lady Ragnall, Jana the elephant-god, and African mystery. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and AZW3 formats.
About The Ivory Child
The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard is a 1916 Allan Quatermain adventure fantasy in which the famous hunter is drawn into the conflict between the White Kendah and the Black Kendah. Summoned by the mysterious priests Harût and Marût, Quatermain journeys into Africa to confront the monstrous elephant Jana, rescue Lady Ragnall, and uncover the strange religious power surrounding the sacred Ivory Child.
Why Read The Ivory Child?
When two strange priests come seeking Macumazana, Allan Quatermain is pulled into one of his most extraordinary adventures: a war of hidden peoples, sacred ivory, lost power, and a gigantic elephant worshipped as a god.
The Ivory Child is an excellent choice for readers who enjoy H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain stories, African adventure fiction, lost-world romance, fantasy, and tales of mystical danger in remote landscapes. Published in 1916, the novel belongs to the later Quatermain cycle and follows the ageing hunter into another perilous expedition beyond the settled world.
The story begins when Allan is approached by Harût and Marût, priests and doctors of the White Kendah people. Their tribe is threatened by the Black Kendah, whose terrible power is bound up with Jana, an enormous elephant regarded as a god or demon. Only Quatermain, they believe, has the skill and fate-appointed role needed to destroy the beast and save their people.
Haggard gives the novel many of his familiar adventure ingredients: mysterious messengers, a vanished woman, hostile tribes, desert journeys, captivity, battle, strange religion, prophecy, and the testing of courage under impossible conditions. The Ivory Child itself gives the story a strong symbolic centre, linking African adventure with Egyptian myth, spiritual rivalry, and the dangerous power of belief.
The novel also develops Haggard’s fascination with destiny, memory, and supernatural suggestion. Allan remains practical, sceptical, and humorous, but he repeatedly finds himself in situations that seem governed by forces larger than ordinary chance. His companions, including Hans and Lord Ragnall, help give the adventure both emotional warmth and sharp moments of danger.
Readers who enjoyed Haggard’s Allan and the Holy Flower, The Ancient Allan, She and Allan, or King Solomon's Mines will find The Ivory Child a strong companion work, full of lost-world mystery, African adventure, occult atmosphere, gigantic peril, and the enduring presence of Allan Quatermain as hunter, survivor, and reluctant servant of fate.
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