King Solomon's Mines

Language: en

"A peculiarly thrilling and vigorous tale of adventure."—Andrew Lang "It goes and it grips and it moves with all the freshness of youth."—Rudyard Kipling When Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island was first published, H. Rider Haggard made a five-shilling bet that he could write a better adventure tale. In 1885, he created King Solomon's Mines, a story in which Allan Quatermain, a gentleman adventurer, is hired to locate a man who had disappeared into the heart of Africa while hunting for the legendary lost diamond mines of King Solomon. The book became an instant sensation and…