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Book Title
King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics) ,By H. Rider Haggard
Publication Name
King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics), by H. Rider Haggard
Title
King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics), by H. Rider Haggard
Author
H. Rider Haggard
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1530999723
EAN
9781530999729
ISBN
9781530999729
Publisher
CreateSpace
Genre
Fiction
Release Year
2016
Release Date
11/04/2016
Language
English
Item Height
0.3in
Item Length
10in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Publication Year
2016
Topic
General
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.The book was first published in September 1885 amid considerable fanfare, with billboards and posters around London announcing "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written". It became an immediate best seller. By the late 19th century, explorers were uncovering ancient civilisations around the world, such as Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and the empire of Assyria. Inner Africa remained largely unexplored and King Solomon's Mines, the first novel of African adventure published in English, captured the public's imagination. The "King Solomon" of the book's title is the Biblical king renowned both for his wisdom and for his wealth. A number of sites have been suggested as the location of his mines, including the workings at the Timna valley near Eilat. Research published in September 2013 has shown that this site was in use during the 10th century BC as a copper mine possibly by the Edomites, who the Bible reports were rivals of and frequently at war with King Solomon. Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent as a 19-year-old during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War, where he had been impressed by South Africa's vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities being uncovered, such as Great Zimbabwe. His original Allan Quatermain character was based in large part on Frederick Courtney Selous, the famous British white hunter and explorer of Colonial Africa. Selous's real-life experiences provided Haggard with the background and inspiration for this and many later stories.

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ISBN-10
1530999723
ISBN-13
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Book Title
King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics) ,By H. Rider Haggard
Author
H. Rider Haggard
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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10in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz

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