King Solomons Mines - Softcover

Haggard, Sir H Rider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438504578 ISBN 13: 9781438504575

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

Sir Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his stories even though the main characters are usually European. King Solomon's Mines is first book in the Allan Quartermain series. Alan Quartermain was the main character in the succeeding novel Marie. He also appears in several sequels. Quartermain was a progressive Victorian. He was a big game hunter in Africa who championed the cause of the natives. King Solomon's Mines tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by Allan Quatermain and a group of adventurers. They are searching for the missing brother of one of the party. The book is significant because it was the first English fictional adventure novel set in Africa

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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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1438504578
• ISBN 13: 9781438504575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216