KING SOLOMON'S MINES
by HAGGARD, H. RIDER
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About This Item
Puffin, Penguin Books, London, 1994. 292 pp, very good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers.
Synopsis
King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.
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- Bookseller
- Camberwell Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 224487
- Title
- KING SOLOMON'S MINES
- Author
- HAGGARD, H. RIDER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Puffin, Penguin Books, London, 1994
- Keywords
- nostalgic fiction fantasy england allan quatermain
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