King Solomon's Mines
By H. Rider Haggard
Cover: Wagon Crossing a Drift, Natal (c. 1850s), oil on canvas by Thomas Baines (1820-1875) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1875)
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. Published by Cassell and Company, it tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre. It is the first of fourteen novels and four short stories by Haggard about Allan Quatermain.
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Table of contents
- 1: I Meet Sir Henry Curtis
- 2: The Legend of Solomon’s Mines
- 3: Umbopa Enters Our Service
- 4: An Elephant Hunt
- 5: Our March into the Desert
- 6: Water! Water!
- 7: Solomon’s Road
- 8: We Enter Kukuanaland
- 9: Twala the King
- 10: The Witch-Hunt
- 11: We Give a Sign
- 12: Before the Battle
- 13: The Attack
- 14: The Last Stand of the Greys
- 15: Good Falls Sick
- 16: The Place of Death
- 17: Solomon’s Treasure Chamber
- 18: We Abandon Hope
- 19: Ignosi’s Farewell
- 20: Found