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Allan Quatermain #1: The First Allan Quatermain Adventure
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781934451854
Publisher: A & D Publishing
Published: Jul 11 2007
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
King Solomon's Mines introduces Allan Quatermain, one of the great adventure heroes of Victorian fiction, in a perilous search for a lost explorer and the legendary treasure of King Solomon. Hired by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help find Curtis's missing brother, Quatermain follows an old map into unmapped African territory, crossing desert, mountain, and political danger on the way to a hidden kingdom, a ruthless ruler, and the promise of unimaginable wealth.
First published in 1885, King Solomon's Mines became one of the defining adventure novels of the nineteenth century and helped establish the lost-world tradition in English fiction. Project Gutenberg identifies the novel as the story of Allan Quatermain leading an expedition into unexplored Africa in search of a missing man and the legendary mines, while other bibliographic summaries note its place as the first of Haggard's Allan Quatermain sequence and as an important source for lost-world adventure fiction. For readers of classic adventure, treasure-hunt fiction, Victorian popular novels, lost kingdoms, expedition stories, and the origins of modern pulp adventure, King Solomon's Mines remains a fast-moving and highly readable classic.
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