Synopses & Reviews
The first great "Lost World" action-adventure-a precursor to Indiana Jones H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they discover a frozen corpse, survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts, and encounter the merciless King Twala en route to the legendary hoard of diamonds.
Synopsis
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of menled by the English adventurer Allan Quartermaintrek into southern Africa in search of a lost friendand lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon.
Synopsis
Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon...
About the Author
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) is also the author of
Allan Quartermain and
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Giles Foden is the author of The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 2006.
Robert Hampson is a professor of modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.