King Solomon's Mines (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Haggard, Rider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099582821 ISBN 13: 9780099582823

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2013

Synopsis

This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon.In the course of a long life of close shaves, I never had such shaves as those which I have recently experienced.

- Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, Gentleman

About this title

Review:

"One of the great page-turners in English literature" (John Sutherland Guardian)

"I can distinctly remember handling the book as if it might somehow give me, a boy in Africa, magical access to the African adventures it contained. It still does now. I need only pick up this book and, like the door to Solomon's treasure chamber, a mass of stone rises from the floor and vanishes into the rock above" (Giles Foden Guardian)

Book Description:

Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon's mines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099582821
• ISBN 13: 9780099582823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352