Child of Storm

Child of Storm is a 1913 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot is set in 1854-56 and concerns Quatermain hunting in Zululand and getting involved with Mameema, a beautiful African girl who causes create turmoil among the Zulu kingdom. The novel is the second in a trilogy by Haggard involving the collapse of the Zulu kingdom and the dwarf Zikali. The first book is Marie, and the third, Finished. The story takes pace against the real life struggle between the two sons of the Zulu king Panda, Cetshwayo and Umbelazi (here called "Mbuyazi"), resulting in the Battle of Ndondakusuka (here called the "Battle of the Tugela") in 1856. Real life people such as Panda, Cetshwayo, and John Robert Dunn appear as characters.