The Ivory Child
- First published
- 1916
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"The Ivory Child" by H. Rider Haggard is a novel featuring Allan Quatermain. Two priests from the White Kendah People travel to England seeking Quatermain's help. Their people face annihilation from the Black Kendah, whose evil god inhabits the largest elephant ever seen—a beast no man can kill. Quatermain must return to Africa to destroy this supernatural threat before an entire civilization perishes. The novel explores themes of memory loss and fate.
- Fantasy fiction, English
- Adventure stories
- Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character)
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #2841. The Ivory Child on Wikipedia.
