{"product_id":"2940012791221","title":"CHILD OF STORM","description":"I.    ALLAN QUATERMAIN HEARS OF MAMEENA\u003cbr\u003e     II.   THE MOONSHINE OF ZIKALI\u003cbr\u003e     III.  THE BUFFALO WITH THE CLEFT HORN\u003cbr\u003e     IV.   MAMEENA\u003cbr\u003e     V.    TWO BUCKS AND THE DOE\u003cbr\u003e     VI.   THE AMBUSH\u003cbr\u003e     VII.  SADUKO BRINGS THE MARRIAGE GIFT\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. THE KING'S DAUGHTER\u003cbr\u003e     IX.   ALLAN RETURNS TO ZULULAND\u003cbr\u003e     X.    THE SMELLING-OUT\u003cbr\u003e     XI.   THE SIN OF UMBELAZI\u003cbr\u003e     XII.  PANDA'S PRAYER\u003cbr\u003e     XIII. UMBELAZI THE FALLEN\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.  UMBEZI AND THE BLOOD-ROYAL\u003cbr\u003e     XV.   MAMEENA CLAIMS THE KISS\u003cbr\u003e     XVI.  MAMEENA--MAMEENA--MAMEENA!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. ALLAN QUATERMAIN HEARS OF MAMEENA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe white people think that we know everything. For instance, we think\u003cbr\u003ethat we understand human nature. And so we do, as human nature appears\u003cbr\u003eto us, with all its trappings and accessories seen dimly through the\u003cbr\u003eglass of our conventions, leaving out those aspects of it which we have\u003cbr\u003eforgotten or do not think it polite to mention. But I, Allan Quatermain,\u003cbr\u003ereflecting upon these matters in my ignorant and uneducated fashion,\u003cbr\u003ehave always held that no one really understands human nature who has\u003cbr\u003enot studied it in the rough. Well, that is the aspect of it with which I\u003cbr\u003ehave been best acquainted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of the years of my life I have handled the raw material, the\u003cbr\u003evirgin ore, not the finished ornament that is smelted out of it--if,\u003cbr\u003eindeed, it is finished yet, which I greatly doubt. I dare say that a\u003cbr\u003etime may come when the perfected generations--if Civilisation, as we\u003cbr\u003eunderstand it, really has a future and any such should be allowed\u003cbr\u003eto enjoy their hour on the World--will look back to us as crude,\u003cbr\u003ehalf-developed creatures whose only merit was that we handed on the\u003cbr\u003eflame of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaybe, maybe, for everything goes by comparison; and at one end of the\u003cbr\u003eladder is the ape-man, and at the other, as we hope, the angel. No, not\u003cbr\u003ethe angel; he belongs to a different sphere, but that last expression\u003cbr\u003eof humanity upon which I will not speculate. While man is man--that is,\u003cbr\u003ebefore he suffers the magical death-change into spirit, if such should\u003cbr\u003ebe his destiny--well, he will remain man. I mean that the same passions\u003cbr\u003ewill sway him; he will aim at the same ambitions; he will know the same\u003cbr\u003ejoys and be oppressed by the same fears, whether he lives in a Kafir\u003cbr\u003ehut or in a golden palace; whether he walks upon his two feet or, as for\u003cbr\u003eaught I know he may do one day, flies through the air. This is certain:\u003cbr\u003ethat in the flesh he can never escape from our atmosphere, and while\u003cbr\u003ehe breathes it, in the main with some variations prescribed by climate,\u003cbr\u003elocal law and religion, he will do much as his forefathers did for\u003cbr\u003ecountless ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is why I have always found the savage so interesting, for in him,\u003cbr\u003enakedly and forcibly expressed, we see those eternal principles which\u003cbr\u003edirect our human destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo descend from these generalities, that is why also I, who hate\u003cbr\u003ewriting, have thought it worth while, at the cost of some labour to\u003cbr\u003emyself, to occupy my leisure in what to me is a strange land--for\u003cbr\u003ealthough I was born in England, it is not my country--in setting down\u003cbr\u003evarious experiences of my life that do, in my opinion, interpret this\u003cbr\u003eour universal nature. I dare say that no one will ever read them; still,\u003cbr\u003eperhaps they are worthy of record, and who knows? In days to come they\u003cbr\u003emay fall into the hands of others and prove of value. At any rate, they\u003cbr\u003eare true stories of interesting peoples, who, if they should survive in\u003cbr\u003ethe savage competition of the nations, probably are doomed to undergo\u003cbr\u003egreat changes. Therefore I tell of them before they began to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, although I take it out of its strict chronological order, the first\u003cbr\u003eof these histories that I wish to preserve is in the main that of an\u003cbr\u003eextremely beautiful woman--with the exception of a certain Nada, called\u003cbr\u003e\"the Lily,\" of whom I hope to speak some day, I think the most beautiful\u003cbr\u003ethat ever lived among the Zulus. Also she was, I think, the most able,\u003cbr\u003ethe most wicked, and the most ambitious. Her attractive name--for it was\u003cbr\u003every attractive as the Zulus said it, especially those of them who were\u003cbr\u003ein love with her--was Mameena, daughter of Umbezi. Her other name\u003cbr\u003ewas Child of Storm (Ingane-ye-Sipepo, or, more freely and shortly,\u003cbr\u003eO-we-Zulu), but the word \"Ma-mee-na\" had its origin in the sound of the\u003cbr\u003ewind that wailed about the hut when she was born.[*]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     [*--The Zulu word \"Meena\"--or more correctly \"Mina\"--means\u003cbr\u003e     \"Come here,\" and would therefore be a name not unsuitable to\u003cbr\u003e     one of the heroine's proclivities; but Mr. Quatermain does\u003cbr\u003e     not seem to accept this interpretation.--EDITOR.]","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152570466544,"sku":"2940012791221","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012791221_p0.jpg?v=1763572494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012791221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}