LONG ODDS by H.RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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EXPLICIT (Hunting). Big-game hunter Allan Quartermaine was a featured character in our King Solomon's Mines series at 1001 Stories for the Road (see link below) and is the creation of British author H.Rider Haggard, whose books sold in the millions since the release of King Solomons Mines in 1887.. In this story Quartermaine shares the story of the lion mount that decorates his mantelpiece and how that hunt crippled him and nearly took his life.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Hello everyone this is your host John Hagadorn and and welcome back to 1001 classic short stories and tales and a brand new year in 2020. |
| 0:37.0 | Thanks to all of you for sharing our show, for reviewing our show, and for being there with us in these past five years. |
| 0:44.1 | It's been a wonderful, wonderful trip and we keep discovering new writers, new authors, and |
| 0:49.4 | great stories. |
| 0:51.3 | I thought we'd start off 2020 with a real adventure from H writer-Haggard called |
| 0:56.5 | Long Odds. The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend |
| 1:05.4 | Alan Quartermain or Hunter Quartermain as we used to call him in South Africa. |
| 1:11.0 | He told me one evening when I was stopping with him at the place he bought in Yorkshire. |
| 1:15.0 | Shortly after that, the death of his only son so unsettled him that he immediately left England, |
| 1:22.0 | accompanied by two companions, his old fellow voyagers, Sir Henry |
| 1:26.1 | Curtis and Captain Goode and has now utterly vanished into the dark heart of Africa. |
| 1:35.8 | He is persuaded that a white people, of which he has heard rumors all his life, exist somewhere in the highlands of the vast still unexplored interior, and |
| 1:42.0 | his great ambition is to find them before he dies. |
| 1:46.2 | This is the wild quest upon which he and his companions have departed and from which |
| 1:50.6 | I shrewdly suspect they never will return. |
| 1:55.5 | One letter only have I received from the old gentleman dated from a mission station high |
| 1:59.8 | up in the Tana, a river on the east coast about 300 miles north of Zanzibar. In it he says that |
| 2:07.4 | they've gone through many hardships and adventures but are alive and well and have |
| 2:11.9 | found traces which go far toward making him hope that the results of their wild |
| 2:15.4 | quest may be a magnificent and unexampled discovery. |
| 2:19.7 | I greatly fear, however, that all he has discovered discovered is death for this letter came a long |
| 2:24.5 | while ago and no one has heard a single word of the party since they have totally vanished. |
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