King Solomon's Mines

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

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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

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

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