H. Rider Haggard, who raised the Union Jack over the Transvaal as a young man, drew on Boer and Zulu testimony gathered while the survivors still lived to write the earliest chapter in the life of his great hero, Allan Quatermain. At eighteen, Quatermain loves a Boer girl whose father will not have an Englishman — a love tested by siege, by the perils of the Great Trek, and by the horror of Retief's massacre at the hands of Dingaan. This edition presents Haggard's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.