The Treasure of the Lake
The Treasure of the Lake is one of the two posthumously published novels by H Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain.[1]
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Author | H. Rider Haggard |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Allan Quatermain |
Publisher | Hutchinson & Co (UK) Doubleday Doran (US) |
Publication date | 1926 |
Preceded by | She and Allan |
Followed by | The Ivory Child |
Plot Outline
Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events.
gollark: Newtonian ethics and all.
gollark: It would only practically work if people cared enough to expend significant resources locally to help people far away, and humans don't seem to like that.
gollark: This is a values problem, not an economic system one.
gollark: The expected value of demanding for communism appears substantially lower than that of actually helping people with malaria.
gollark: Yet they do not do this, and instead ineffectually demand communism which would totally make everything great and wonderful.
References
- "RIDER HAGGARD". The Queenslander. 8 January 1927. p. 8. Retrieved 21 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
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