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In a world of chiefs and warriors, one woman's beauty and ambition can be as dangerous as war.
In H. Rider Haggard's Child of Storm, Allan Quatermain looks back on his youth in southern Africa. The practical hunter and trader moves among the Zulu people and their rulers. He watches a world of royal courts, soldiers and healers—and finds himself drawn into its struggles.
At the center stands Mameena, a beautiful, sharp-witted woman who pursues her own aims among powerful men. Saduko binds his hopes to her, while kings and warriors consult the feared wizard Zikali. Love, ambition and betrayal meet in an adventure where desire brings danger and fate shadows human plans.
What you’ll discover
- A dangerous woman Meet Mameena, whose intelligence and force of will make beauty only part of her power.
- A watchful storyteller Follow Allan Quatermain as he recalls the people and struggles of his younger years.
- Royal power and ambition Enter a world where chiefs seek rank and followers look to powerful men for protection.
- The feared Opener of Roads Encounter Zikali, the old wizard whom kings and warriors both fear and turn to.
- Desire under fate's shadow Explore the pull of love and ambition in a land marked by conflict and change.
Who will love it
For readers who love African adventure, strong and dangerous heroines, tales of fate and ambition, and the old storytelling voice of a hunter who has seen a great deal and tells it plainly.
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- A hunter hears of a girl called Storm
- Saduko carries a debt that cannot be paid
- The old dwarf says he is a cheat
- A hunting trip ends in a muddy pool
- Mameena offers a throne and takes it back
- A plan of ambush against Bangu
- Saduko wins a fortune and loses Mameena
- A royal child dies and a wizard is sniffed out
- Two bulls must fight, and a trader is sent along
Who’s who
- Allan QuatermainAn English hunter and trader who tells the story and keeps promising himself he will stay out of Zulu quarrels.
- MameenaUmbezi's daughter, called Child of Storm, a dazzling and ruthless woman who wants to become the greatest lady in the land.
- SadukoA proud young chief of the Amangwane, raised by Zikali, who seeks revenge on his father's killer and the hand of Mameena.
- ZikaliA dwarf and witch-doctor called Opener-of-Roads, who hides his plan to see the royal Zulu house fall.
- UmbeziMameena's fat, boastful father, a chief who loves cattle and his own comfort more than his promises.
- NandieA daughter of King Panda, calm and wise, who marries Saduko and watches Mameena closely.
- UmbelaziPanda's tall, handsome and warm-hearted son, loved by the people and rival to his brother for the throne.
- CetewayoUmbelazi's stern brother, a strong and watchful prince who believes the throne is rightfully his.
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Kind des Sturms
by H. Rider Haggard · 1913
A hunter in Zululand meets a storm-born beauty whose ambition could burn a kingdom to ash.
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What would you do if the most beautiful woman in Zululand offered you a throne? Child of Storm is an adventure novel by H.
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A hunter hears of a girl called Storm
Allan Quatermain, an English trader and hunter, looks back on 1854 and promises to tell the story of the most beautiful, capable and wicked woman he ever met among the Zulus. Her name is Mameena, and her second name is Child of Storm, because she was born on the night of a great wind.
He is hunting near the Umvolosi rivers with a fat, boastful chief named Umbezi, who accidentally shoots a piece off his wife's ear. Umbezi mentions Mameena, his eldest daughter, and the young warrior Saduko, who loves her. Umbezi says he will not hand her over for less than a hundred cattle, and he doubts that Mameena loves anyone but herself.
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What is Child of Storm about?
It follows the hunter Allan Quatermain through the Zulu kingdom in the 1850s, where the beautiful and ambitious Mameena stirs up rivalry among the men around her, while two princes quarrel over who will inherit the throne.
Who is Mameena in Child of Storm?
Mameena is the daughter of the chief Umbezi, a woman of striking beauty and a sharp mind. Her name Mameena comes from the sound of wind around her birthplace. Her second name is Child of Storm. Quatermain compares her to Helen of Troy.
Is Child of Storm based on a true story?
Partly. Haggard says the struggle between the princes Cetewayo and Umbelazi, and the great battle at Endondakusuka in 1856, are historical. Haggard sets Mameena and her schemes aside when he calls the struggle true.
The author
H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 · English adventure novelist
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist. He was born in Norfolk, lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, and later settled in Norfolk. He wrote King Solomon’s Mines (1885), She (1887), and Beatrice (1890). He also wrote about agriculture and rural life. He died in London.
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