King Solomon's Mines (Paperback)
| Author: H. Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
ISBN-10: 0809594145
ISBN-13: 9780809594146
Sku: 36321379
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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(in Inches) 9H x 6L x 0.25T
Pages:
216
Age Range:
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| I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say, especially considering that there is no woman in it -- except Foulata. Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend. But she was a hundred at least, and therefore not marriageable, so I don't count her. At any rate, I can safely say that there is not a _petticoat_ in the whole history. |
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Allan Quatermain, gentleman adventurer, is retained to locate a missing man by two Englishmen. The man, brother of one of the Englishmen, has disappeared into the heart of Africa while on a hunt for the lost mines of King Solomon. Joining up with a Zulu named Umslopogaas, they follow a trail of fabulous wealth. The first volume of a series of ten about Quatermain and his friends.
Allan Quatermain, gentleman adventurer, is retained to locate a missing man by two Englishmen. The man, brother of one of the Englishmen, has disappeared into the heart of Africa while on a hunt for the lost mines of King Solomon. Joining up with a Zulu named Umslopogaas, they follow a trail of fabulous wealth. The first volume of a series of ten about Quatermain and his friends.
Author Bio
Henry Rider Haggard
Born in Norfolk, England in 1856, Henry Rider Haggard traveled extensively in South Africa as a government employee until the age of 25. Settling in England in 1881, he began writing. His first book, KING SOLOMON'S MINES, appeared in 1885 and was a huge success. It charts the adventures of Allan Quatermain as he tries to locate a man who has gone missing in the heart of Africa. With this first book in a series, Haggard virtually defined the notion of the "lost world" science fiction/fantasy genre--which, simply put, is the discovery by "modern man" of a long-hidden enclave of some form of "primitive" life: humans, dinosaurs, or almost anything else. Haggard followed KING SOLOMON'S MINES with 13 other books about Quatermain, and the series was eventually joined--in 1921's SHE & ALLAN--with Haggard's other important series--the Ayesha books. That series started with SHE in 1886, and followed the life of an immortal goddess who ruled from a hidden city. Haggard was knighted in 1912 and continued to write up until his death in 1925. The final two Quatermain adventures appeared posthumously. Many contemporary fantasy writer regularly mention Haggard as an important influence on their work, citing in particular his 1890 book, ERIC BRIGHTEYES, which is often considered the best early example of a fantasy novel based on Nordic legend.
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