King Solomons Mines, H. Rider Haggard
King Solomons Mines, H. Rider Haggard
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King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Narrator: Toby Stephens

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2017

Synopsis

Allan Quatermain and a group of fellow adventurers set out to find a missing member of their party. This is the beginning of their adventures in an unfamiliar and unexplored region of inner Africa. The first adventure novel to take place in Africa, King Solomon's Mines achieved wide-spread popularity as soon as it was published in 1885.

About H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Norfolk, England. After failing the Army entrance exam, he went to Natal in 1875 as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer and the next year went to the Transvaal. He returned to England in 1881, married, and settled down to a literary life. His first novel, King Solomon’s Mines, was published in 1885. He published thirty-four adventure novels during his lifetime. He was knighted in 1912.

About Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens is an English stage, television, and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for playing megavillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry on June 09, 2024

Sir H. (Henry) Rider Haggard the British inventor of the lost civilization adventures stories has here one of his most famous and best, King Solomon's Mines a wonderful if improbable trek through the thick jungles, high mountains, scorching deserts of this fascinating land. For any person interested......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 10, 2025

Thriller escapism in the Victorian style! Like many of its contemporaries - Edgar Rice Burrough's Caspak, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, Jules Verne's subterranean Lidenbrock Sea and even HG Well's Island of Dr Moreau - KING SOLOMON'S MINES is a story of adventure into an exotic locale and can......more

Goodreads review by Sanjay on September 07, 2024

I have always been fascinated by treasure hunt books and this book surpassed my expectations. A real adventure it was! It's a story of survival, revenge, the making of a king, greatest treasure hunt, and friendship. I was hooked from the start and the story just got more riveting with every page.......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on June 22, 2015

This book is the response to a five-shilling dare from Haggard's brother that he couldn't write a book half as good as Treasure Island. Haggard was enormously popular in his time; he and Robert Louis Stevenson were the two dominant adventure writers It's enormously imaginative. Alan Quatermain is a b......more

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