Henry Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When two men approach adventurer Allan Quartermain to lead an expedition into unexplored areas of Africa in search of a man lost while trying to find the fabled treasure horde located at King Solomon's Mines, Quartermain agrees to be their guide. Armed with a map that purports to show the way to this legendary treasure and aided by a mysterious local named Umbopa, the men set out on an adventure into the darkest regions of Africa.

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines is widely acknowledged as the first work in what would come to be known as the Lost World literary genre, and inspired other famous works such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land that Time Forgot, and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443432788
• Artikelnr.: 41368553

Autorenporträt

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (H. Rider Haggard) was an English writer, agricultural reformer, and founder of the Lost World literary genre. Among Haggard's best-known works are such Victorian classics as King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quartermain, and She, which is credited with influencing the work of J. R. R. Tolkien. Haggard's works continue to be popular in modern times, influencing not only adventure literature, but also cinematic depictions of adventurous heroes and lost worlds. A Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE), Haggard died in 1925.