Allan Quatermain #1

<p><strong><em>King Solomon's Mines</em> introduces Allan Quatermain one of the great adventure heroes of Victorian fiction in a perilous search for a lost explorer and the legendary treasure of King Solomon.</strong> Hired by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help find Curtis's missing brother Quatermain follows an old map into unmapped African territory crossing desert mountain and political danger on the way to a hidden kingdom a ruthless ruler and the promise of unimaginable wealth.</p><p>First published in 1885 <strong><em>King Solomon's Mines</em></strong> became one of the defining adventure novels of the nineteenth century and helped establish the lost-world tradition in English fiction. Project Gutenberg identifies the novel as the story of Allan Quatermain leading an expedition into unexplored Africa in search of a missing man and the legendary mines while other bibliographic summaries note its place as the first of Haggard's Allan Quatermain sequence and as an important source for lost-world adventure fiction. For readers of classic adventure treasure-hunt fiction Victorian popular novels lost kingdoms expedition stories and the origins of modern pulp adventure <strong><em>King Solomon's Mines</em></strong> remains a fast-moving and highly readable classic.</p>