Священный цветок. Чудовище по имени Хоу-Хоу. Она и Аллан. Сокровище озера (с илл. )

Besstrashnyĭ okhotnik Allan Kvotermeĭn po prozvishchu Makumazan, chto oznachaet "chelovek, kotoryĭ vstaet posle polunochi", nikogda ne li͡ubil syrosti i chopornosti rodnoĭ Anglii, predpochitai͡a zharkiĭ pylʹnyĭ prostor afrikanskogo velʹda; ego vlekli neizvedannye, polnye opasnosteĭ zemli Chernogo kontinenta, gde zhivut prostodushnye i zhestokie, kak vse deti prirody, li͡udi, gde brodi͡at stada dikikh buĭvolov i rychat po nocham svirepye lʹvy. Vot ėta zhiznʹ byla po nravu Kvotermeĭnu - li͡ubimomu geroi͡u zamechatelʹnogo pisateli͡a Genri Raĭdera Khaggarda, kotoryĭ posvi͡atil otvazhnomu okhotniku mnozhestvo knig.

Fearless hunter Allan Quatermain, nicknamed Macumazahn, which means "the man who gets up after midnight", never liked the dampness and primness of his native England, preferring the hot, dusty expanse of the African veld; he was attracted to the unexplored, dangerous lands of the Black continent, where simple-minded and cruel, like all children of nature, people live, where they wander herds of wild buffaloes and ferocious lions roar at night. This life was to the liking of Quartermain, the beloved hero of the wonderful writer Henry Rider Haggard, who dedicated many books to the brave hunter.