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Allan Quatermain

Pronunciation pronunciation key
kwortămayn

Definition 
A rugged hero, especially one with long experience of Africa. The allusion is to the hero of that name in the adventure novels of H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), including the best-seller King Solomon's Mines (1886). His extensive experience of the dangers of the African interior made him a capable guide for the various Europeans drawn to unknown regions of the African continent and in many ways established the model that decades later produced Indiana Jones. Her father had spent his life in the Australian outback and had all the qualities of a grizzled antipodean Allan Quatermain.

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