Haggard's King Solomon's Mines
1885 · Work
H. Rider Haggard's tale of Allan Quatermain's trek into unmapped Africa — written on a five-shilling bet, the first great 'lost world' adventure novel and a bestseller that shaped a century of imperial fiction.
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