wow, finding Haggard definitely seems like a treasure hunt. How exciting!
wow, finding Haggard definitely seems like a treasure hunt. How exciting!
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
Kudos to Whifflingpin's brother. Ironically after I obtained Treasure of the Lake edition off e-bay my dealer got a much cheaper copy in. I tend to collect either by character (as in Quatermain) or everything as in Rafael Sabatini (still have about 6 or so to go). Recently discovered his The Justice of the Duke was published only overseas and never had an American edition which has cleared one mystery up why THAT book never crossed my path.
Since this is 2 years-plus after anybody posted on this thread, I don't know if any of you will see it. But it's great to see other Haggard fans out there, and to see the interesting comments posted. It's no substitute for a real "flesh-and-blood" printed book, but one option for anyone out there who's trying to read a Haggard tale but hasn't been able to yet lay hands on an actual physical copy, is to download an electronic copy from Project Gutenberg, which is searchable by title or author. Even slightly better, in my opinion, is to search in Google Books for "rider haggard" or for any of the specific titles, with the search option set to "full view". The books in google books are scans of the original books with all of the original formatting and look of the pages of the real book. Project Gutenberg files are just plain text and so are not quite as easy on the eye when reading.
I just came across this forum and this thread. As a long time Haggard fan I have hunted up and read most all the AQ stories. I just found "Magepa the Buck" today.
The best source of Haggard is the Gutenberg Australia site. You are not supposed to copy or read some of the stories after 1923? or so but I won't tell if you dont.
Richard Chamberlain (playing Alan Quartermain), Martin Rabbitt, and Sharon Stone were in two Alan Q. movies - "King Solomon's Mines" and "AQ and the Lost City of Gold." Both were campy in the Indiana Jones tradition and a lot of fun to watch.
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