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  • Published: 2 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448133956
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

King Solomon's Mines




Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon's mines.


Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon's mines.

This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon.In the course of a long life of close shaves, I never had such shaves as those which I have recently experienced.

- Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, Gentleman

‘One of the great page-turners in English literature’ Guardian

  • Published: 2 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448133956
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

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