Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Allan Quatermain

 
Original - H. Rider Haggard's iconic big-game-hunter character Allan Quatermain, from Thure de Thulstrup's illustrations to Maiwa's Revenge.
Reason
H. Rider Haggard's series of novels about Allan Quatermain are classics in the boy's adventure novel genre. Allan Quatermain is a big game hunter in Africa, who faces magic, adventure, lost cities, and, in the end, the realisation that his hunting is helping to destroy the continent he loved - and yet forms his only possible source of income. The books have several strong black characters; I have a second image of one of them, but I'll need to work up a few articles to fill in some missing coverage before it's ready for here - our coverage of this genre isn't all that great at present.
Articles this image appears in
Allan Quatermain, Henry Rider Haggard. I plan to create an article on this book soon; but our coverage of Haggard's works is somewhat limited at present to the first couple in each series, which, honestly, rather surprised me.
Creator
Thure de Thulstrup

Promoted File:Thure de Thulstrup - H. Rider Haggard - Maiwa's_Revenge_- Fire, you scoundrels.jpg --wadester16 | Talk→ 03:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]