Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain, Rider Haggard's famous protagonist, is a missionary-born big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa. Preceding this adventure, Quatermain has lost his only son. He longs to get back to the wilderness. He persuades some old friends to embark on a challenging expedition to find a lost East African kingdom. The journey will come to involve sensational fights, terrible dangers and extraordinary escapes.

A timeless adventure story, set early in the fourth quarter of the 19th century, Allan Quatermain is as thrilling today as when it was first published in 1887. Quatermain himself is said to have provided the base for the figure of Indiana Jones.