King Solomon's Mines by Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines by Rider Haggard

Tells the 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.

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 containedIt 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 *

Henry Rider Haggard was born in Norfolk in 1856. His post of junior secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer meant that he travelled and he spent six years in South Africa . Haggard was bet by his brother that he could not write as good a novel as Stevenson's Treasure Island. The result of this bet was Haggard's 1885 book, King Solomon's Mines. It became a runaway bestseller so Haggard was able to leave London and concentrate on his writing. He published She in 1887. Andrew Lang thought She was ‘one of the most astonishing romances I ever read. The more impossible it is, the better you do it, till it seems like a story from the literature of another planet'. Haggard died in 1925.

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ISBN 13	9780099582823
ISBN 10	0099582821
Title	King Solomon's Mines
Author	Rider Haggard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2013-05-02
Number of pages	352
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