Allan and the Ice-gods

Allan and the Ice-Gods is a novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring his recurring character Allan Quatermain, based on an idea given to Haggard by Rudyard Kipling. The story details Quatermain's past life regression to a Stone Age ancestor and the various adventures involved.

This was the fourteenth and final Allan Quatermain novel to be published, although the events of the novel Allan Quatermain occur after it. Haggard wrote eighteen Quatermain novels and short stories, and Allan and the Ice-Gods is the last of these. It is also the final Allan Quatermain novel in the trilogy involving the Taduki drug and Lady Luna Ragnall, following The Ivory Child, and The Ancient Allan.

The novel has been noted as a treatment of the topics of eugenics and evolution in literature and culture.