Language: English
Published in: 1885
Categorie(s): Fiction, Action & Adventure
Word count: 82,580 words (≈ about 6 hours)
Source: Gutenberg
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party. It is significant as the first… (more)
Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels. Allan Quatermain...
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As a avid reader it shed new light upon my taste for adventure.
The writer makes sure that the narrative doesn't become boring or to long. Haggard as a man of great writing skills.