H. Rider Haggard wrote African adventures

It is the birthday of Victorian English writer H. Rider Haggard (1856), who is best remembered for his novel King Solomon's Mines (1885) and its sequel, Allan Quatermain (1887), among the first English adventure novels set in Africa. Quatermain is a professional big game hunter and an excellent marksman. Haggard wrote numerous sequels, and is generally credited with creating the Lost World literary genre. He is said to have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Margaret Atwood. Haggard also wrote She (1887),  Eric Brighteyes (1891) and Nada the Lily (1892).