King Solomon's Mines (World's Best Reading) - Hardcover

H. Rider Haggard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895775530 ISBN 13: 9780895775535

Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1994

Synopsis

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon.

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Touted by its 1885 publisher as "the most amazing story ever written," "King Solomon's Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard's thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, though: As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction, in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen, "King Solomon's Mines "brings us the world of extremes, of the absurdly tall tales and of the illogical loyalty between disparate people that still informs this part of the world."

Edition details

• Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895775530
• ISBN 13: 9780895775535
• Binding: Imitation Leather
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224