Colonel Quaritch,V.C. = Полковник Куарич, В.К.

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.