Quatermain: The New Adventures is a New Pulp adventure fiction series that adds to the legendary stories of H. Rider Haggard's iconic character Allan Quatermain. Set in the jungles, mountains, and savannas of Africa in the late 1800s, these tales capture the air of danger, mystery, and myth that Europeans expected and experienced in their colonization of "The Dark Continent." In addition to the 17 original Haggard novels, there have been both direct and indirect movie adaptations, most notably King Solomon's Mines, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the Indiana Jones series. The only character common to both of the stories in the first volume of Quatermain: The New Adventures is Allan Quatermain himself. He's described as being an Englishman in his mid-50s, with gray hair and beard, and short but strong. Most of the time he's calm, slow-paced, and reflective; but once the situation turns dangerous, Quatermain turns into a quick-thinking, precise-acting, calculated hunter. This wasn't an easy voice to develop, but from the beginning the only model I had in mind for it was Alec Guinness. The first story, "Golden Ivory," is a first-person account of a riverboat pilot's journey with Quatermain and his party into the African... Read more →