King Solomon's Mines
by Haggard, H. Rider
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0895775530
- ISBN 13
- 9780895775535
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Synopsis
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 fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.
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- Browse Awhile Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01044045
- Title
- King Solomon's Mines
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Illustrator
- Walter Paget
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0895775530
- ISBN 13
- 9780895775535
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Association
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- Large Octavo
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