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Allan and the Ice Gods
In Allan and the Ice Gods, Allan Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic drug taduki to experience his past life as a caveman named Wi. Set during the Ice Age, Wi must battle numerous beasts, other tribes, and the former chief Henga to survive. Rudyard Kipling contributed to the plot of this novel.
Hutchinson and Co., London, published the first UK edition of AIG on 20 May, 1927 in an edition of 6,000. Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, published the first US edition that same year. Tauchnitz, Leipzig, also published a copyright edition in 1927.
Further Reading
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F56, 72.
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'O Sleeper with a shape such as no man has ever seen, Wi throws out his spirit to you—hear you the prayer of Wi!'
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Running at the side of the leader, a great gaunt she-wolf, was Pag, the Wolf-man
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A lovely voice I knew whispered, 'Look upon one record of the past, O Doubter'
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The next instant, Wi was up again, charging at Henga, who now grasped the club with a huge hand and swung it aloft to crush him...
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'Have I not told you that I am named a prophetess, or a Witch-from-the-sea?' La-leela asked sadly of Wi
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The boulders danced through the people—the ice flowed over then...
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