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King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

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Touted by its 1885 publisher as “the most amazing story ever written,” King Solomon’s Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard’s thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, though: As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction, in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen, King Solomon’s Mines “brings us the world of extreme

First published: 2007 301 pages ISBN: 9780307431349
Category
Literature
Priority
Recommended
Author works
3
Language
eng
Subjects
Children's fictionMines and mineral resources, fictionAdventure and adventurers, fictionLarge type booksQuatermain, allan (fictitious character), fictionFiction, action & adventureAfrica -- FictionMissing persons -- FictionAdventure storiesTreasure troves -- Fiction

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