Bay Books: 428 books

* Book : The Wanderer's Necklace * Biography * Bibliography Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin's right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine...

* Book : Montezuma's Daughter * Biography * Bibliography Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, is a novel written by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered,...

* Book : Allan Quatermain * Biography * Bibliography The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines. In this adventure novel named after him, Quatermain longs for a return to the wilderness after losing his son. He talks a number of companions...

* Book : Heart of the World * Biography * Bibliography An extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings. Excerpt from Heart of the World The circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are...

* Book : Maiwa's Revenge (Allan Quatermain .12) * Biography * Bibliography The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.

* Book : Jess * Biography * Bibliography Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. Jess is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, when she and Bessie arrived motherless...

* Book : The Wizard * Biography * Bibliography The novel begins on a Sunday afternoon in summer at a church in the Midland county called Busscombe. Reverend Thomas Owen had a preacher for the day called a “Deputation,” who was sent to arouse the indifferent to the duty of converting the...

* Book : Allan and the Ice Gods (Allan Quatermain .15) * Biography * Bibliography This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga, and it comprises the fourth part of a loosely linked series begun with Allan and the Holy Flower. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki...

* Book : The Ivory Child (Allan Quatermain .7) * Biography * Bibliography While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana -- that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests and doctors...

* Book : Lysbeth * Biography * Bibliography Teenage and adult readers will be inspired by this historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. This lively and heart-rending story by H. Rider Haggard will remind each reader of the value of religious liberty.

* Book : Allan's Wife (Allan Quatermain .13) * Biography * Bibliography This book tells more stories of Quartermain's time in South Africa--presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father's death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella. Excerpt: For a moment...

* Book : King Solomon's Mines * Biography * Bibliography King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of...

* Book : Swallow * Biography * Bibliography The subjects and historical periods that British action-adventure writer H. Rider Haggard tackled in his vast body of work ranged considerably, but one element remains a constant thread that unites his entire oeuvre: heart-racing adventure that will...

* Book : Heu-Heu (Allan Quatermain .3) * Biography * Bibliography