Allan and the Holy Flower

Allan and the Holy Flower is a book by English writer H. Rider Haggard, that was first published in 1915. Part of the Allan Quatermain series, it was originally serialised in The Windsor Magazine. The book is an adventure story about the quest to find a huge, rare orchid. Quatermain brings one of these flowers back to England from Africa and this leads a man called Stephen Somers to go off searching for his own - along with Allan. On the expedition, they come across Arabian slave traders, warrior tribes, cannibals, and a giant gorilla.