by H. Rider Haggard · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140624205
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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).
Guided by a map of doubtful reliability, a group of explorers led by the hunter Allan Quatermain crosses southern Africa in search of a missing friend and the legendary mines of King Solomon. They traverse deserts and remote mountains, come across a frozen corpse, and face King Twala on their way to the coveted diamond deposit.
First installment of the Allan Quatermain series. The novel was originally published in 1885.
Recommended for readers of classic and adventure fiction, especially those interested in nineteenth-century exploration literature.
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.
