Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Colonel Quaritch is a story of an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride - the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Colonel Quaritch is a story of an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride - the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
