Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel
King Solomon's Mines, its one sequel Allan Quatermain, twelve prequel
novels and four prequel short stories, totalling eighteen works. The
real-life adventures of Frederick Selous, the British big game hunter
and explorer of Africa, inspired Haggard to create the Allan Quatermain
character. Haggard was also heavily influenced by other larger-than-life
adventurers whom he later met in Africa, most notably American Scout
Frederick Russell Burnham. After the battle ended, Allan's body is
brought to ZuVendis, Africa, and buried in an existing grave dating from
the time he originally faked his death.