Novels of South Africa brought a wide popular success to the author, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations a founder of the Lost World literary genre. In “Hunter Quatermain's Story” we meet again the white hunter and adventurer Allan Quatermain, the central hero of 17 Haggard’s novels and collections of short stories. Courageous, resolute, able to find a way out of any hopeless situations, a perfect fighter and horseman Allan is a man, devoted to his friends and native land. This work became the seventeenth book of the Allan Quatermain series, where Allan tells a story of his experisnce during the hunt: having lost the wagon and oxen, he had to return to populated area, accompanied by two servants. On their dangerous way back, 300 miles long, they were attacked by a lion and a fierce ox. In all the Haggard’s stories, the fantastic and mystical element plays a substantial role; the author’s passion for the lost words, ancient ruins and mysterious civilizations, cults of immortality and reincarnation made the author a forefather of modern fantasy.