Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain är en litterär figur och huvudperson i flera av H. Rider Haggards äventyrsböcker. Quatermain beskrivs som den största jägaren genom tiderna.
Böcker
Böckerna författade av H. Rider Haggard som relaterar till Quatermain:
- Kung Salomos skatt, King Solomon’s Mines 1885, översatt till svenska 1886
- Allan Quatermain 1887
- Allan's Wife 1887
- Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand 1888
- Marie 1912
- Child of Storm 1913
- The Holy Flower 1915
- Finished 1917
- The Ivory Child 1916
- The Ancient Allan 1920
- She and Allan 1920
- Heu-heu: or The Monster 1924
- The Treasure of the Lake 1926
- Allan and the Ice-gods 1927
- Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain
Quatermain i andra verk
Filmer
King Solomon's Mines har filmats ett flertal gånger. 1950 kom filmen ut med Stewart Granger i huvudrollen. 1985 var det Richard Chamberlain som gestaltade Quatermain i Kung Salomos sk(r)att och dess uppföljare året därpå. 2004 gjordes en nyinspelning, direkt för TV, med Patrick Swayze som huvudrollsinnehavare.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Figuren Allan Quatermain har använts flitigt av moderna författare. Ett av de mest kända är seriealbumet The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen av Alan Moore och Kevin O'Neill som 2003 blev filmen The League med Sean Connery i rollen som Quatermain.
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Illustration from H. Rider Haggard's Maiwa's Revenge, Chapter VII, by Thure de Thulstrup.
The scene shows Allan Quatermain ordering the men to fire, after getting them to wait until the most opportune moment:
| “ | "Now they are going to begin," I thought to myself, and I was not far wrong, for in another minute the body of men divided into three companies, each about five hundred strong, and, heralded by a running fire, charged at us on three sides. Our men were now all well under cover, and the fire did us no harm. I mounted on a rock, so as to command a view of as much of the koppie and plain as possible, and yelled to our men to reserve their fire till I gave the word, and then to shoot low, and load as quickly as possible. I knew that, like all natives, they were sure to be execrable shots, and that they were armed with weapons made out of old gas-pipes, so the only chance of doing execution was to let the enemy get right on to us.
On they came with a rush. They were within eighty yards now, and as they drew near the point of attack, I observed that they closed their ranks, which was so much the better for us. "Shall we not fire, my father?" sung out the captain. "No—confound you!" I answered. "Sixty yards — fifty — forty — thirty. Fire, you scoundrels!" I yelled, setting the example by letting off both barrels of my elephant gun into the thickest part of the company opposite to me. |
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