num_pages: 292
description: Touted by its 1885 publisher as “the most amazing story ever written,” King Solomon’s Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard’s thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction, in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen, King Solomon’s Mines “brings us the world of extremes, of the absurdly tall tales and of the illogical loyalty between disparate people that still informs this part of the world.”
language: English
title: King Solomon's Mines
titlecomplete: King Solomon's Mines
characters: Umbopa/Ignosi, Sir Henry Curtis, Allan Quatermain, Thomas Wingfield, Good
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Africa
ratings_count: 48435
places: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico
series: Allan Quatermain, Ayesha, and Umslopogaas, Allan Quatermain
publisher: Puffin Books