Alan Quatermain

This edition is part of the World Story Masterpieces series, which aims to teach young people the English language through world stories. In addition to the English text and an Arabic translation, each story contains comprehensive exercises for the story’s themes, attached at the end. This aims to accurately compare vocabulary and meanings, achieving a balance that prepares students for better language learning. This book contains a variety of stories, including the story of Allan Quatermain, the protagonist who plays the narrator. He lost his son on one of his trips to Africa. He lives in Durban, Natal Province, in southeast Africa. He is fifty-five years old. He began his working life at an early age, working as a traveling salesman, then hunting animals and working in warfare, and finally as a miner. As for his missing son, he was kidnapped by the Moors when he was young and would have been killed had his voice not been admired by their king, who appointed him a court singer. He became known as the Singer of… Egypt. This book also includes other short stories, including “Return to Africa,” “A Tale of Gold,” “Into the Unknown,” “The Gateway to the Underworld,” and more, out of a total of thirty stories worthy of attention.