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H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, featured in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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* Cleopatra ( 1889 novel ), by H. Rider Haggard
Cuauhtémoc, in the name Guatemoc, is portrayed sympathetically in the adventure novel Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard.
* Donald A. Wollheim on H. Rider Haggard and She ( full text )
* 1856 – H. Rider Haggard, English writer ( d. 1925 )
La Malinche, in the name Marina (" for her Indian name is too long to be written "), also appears in the adventure novel Montezuma's Daughter ( 1893 ), by H. Rider Haggard.
The magazine began to take off when, in 1905, the publishers acquired the rights to serialize Ayesha, by H. Rider Haggard, a sequel to his popular novel She.
Quaggas have appeared in several books including The Mysterious Island, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer, Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard and the short story " King of the Beasts " by Philip José Farmer.
* In H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines the protagonists discover multiple settings said to belong to, or having been built at the request of King Solomon, such as ' Solomon's Great Road ' and the mines themselves.
Wow editor Jerry Iger bought an Eisner adventure strip called Captain Scott Dalton, an H. Rider Haggard-styled hero who traveled the world after rare artifacts.
** H. Rider Haggard, English novelist ( b. 1856 )
* May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, English writer ( b. 1856 )
However, very few of his works contain fantastic elements ; in most, the appearance of such is explained away, but in its themes of adventure in a strange society, this led to the adventures set in foreign lands by H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
* Titus figures prominently in " The Pearl-Maiden ", a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1901.
The battle is a crucial episode in the life of hero Hugh de Cressi ( his name apparently a coincidence ) of the H. Rider Haggard novel " Red Eve ".
Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland.
Category: Novels by H. Rider Haggard
Speed is credited as the designer on the 1916 silent movie version of the novel She by H. Rider Haggard, which he had illustrated.
Ophir is the subject of H. Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines, which places the lost city in South Africa.
Burnham's real-life adventures also heavily influenced H. Rider Haggard who created the fictional Allan Quatermain adventurer, a character who later was transformed by George Lucus into Indiana Jones ..
King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure novel, has been adapted to the following films:
King Solomon's Mines ( 1885 ) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.
Category: Novels by H. Rider Haggard
The novelist Sir H. Rider Haggard ( 1856 – 1925 ) was born nearby in Bradenham and presented St. Mary's Church with a wooden panel, displayed behind the altar.
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