Renowned adventurer,
big-game hunter and hero of the
British
Empire. Sort of like an
archetypal Indiana Jones, travelling and
discovering the still unknown parts of
Africa.
Quatermain made his first appearance in the novel "King Solomon's
Mines" (1885), which allegedly was the result of a five-shilling
wager by author H. Rider Haggard that he could write a better novel
than Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island". Haggard also wrote
"She" (1887) and "Allan Quatermain" (1887), both starring Allan
Quatermain. Though I have not read them myself, I also assume that
"The Ancient Allan" (1920), "She and Allan" (1920), "Allan and
the Ice-Gods" (1927) and "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of
Gold", contain Allan Quatermain to various degrees.
Lately, Quatermain has frequented the "League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen" by Alan Moore, a publication I can heartily recommend.