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Book · 1885 · Fiction

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard
Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 320 pages
★ 5.3 editorial score

Allan Quatermain, an aging elephant hunter, follows an old map into unmapped Africa and finds a lost kingdom ruled by a tyrant. Hidden-city adventure from Tarzan to Indiana Jones runs on Haggard's machinery.

Genre
AdventureLost worldVictorian literature
Medium
Novel
Subject
AfricaImperialismTreasure
Setting
South Africa
Time
1885Depicts 1880s

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