King Solomon's Mines
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2007
Summary
Allan Quartermain had been a trader and hunter all his life and knew Africa as well as any white man. He was returning to Natal, South Africa, when Sir Henry Curtis tracked him down and made him a proposition. Curtis’s brother had heard of the famous, fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. He has taken an expedition into the unchartered interior to find it. He has not returned.
Quartermain possesses an old map purporting to show the way to the fabled mines so, in return for a share of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340922897 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340922893 |
| Author: | H. Rider Haggard |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Headline Review Classics |
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‘Enchantment is just what Rider Haggard exercised … [his] books live today with undiminished vitality’
‘Enchantment is just what Rider Haggard exercised … [his] books live today with undiminished vitality’ - Graham Greene
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H. Rider Haggard
H Rider Haggard was born in 1856 in Norfolk but went to South Africa in 1975 and pronounced the British annexation of the Transvaal. He returned to England for good in 1882, after which he studied law and was called to the bar. He was a prolific writer, best known for his adventure novels which inspired a whole new genre of writing and influenced writers as diverse as Freud, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan-Doyle and George Lucas. Rider Haggard was also interested in social justice and wrote extensively on the subject. He was knighted in 1912 and died in 1925.
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