King Solomon's Mines: Complete and Unabridged (Puffin Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

H. Rider Haggard

ISBN 10

0140366873

ISBN 13

9780140366877

Tags

Africa, Action & Adventure, Classics

Description

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 extremes, of the absurdly tall tales and of the illogical loyalty between disparate people that still informs this part of the world.” - from Amzon

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