by H. Rider Haggard · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621235
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«King Solomon's Mines» is the adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The narrator, Allan Quatermain, recounts the expedition he undertakes with Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good to find George, Sir Henry's brother, lost in Africa while searching for the legendary mines of King Solomon. Amid hardships, warriors and mortal dangers, they must also face the witch Gagool.
This 1994 edition is the first installment of the Allan Quatermain series; the original novel was published in 1885.
Fans of adventure classics and stories of exploration set in Africa.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.
