
H. Rider Haggard's 'King Solomon's Mines' is a classic adventure novel set in uncharted Africa, following the English adventurer Allan Quatermain on a quest to find a lost friend and a legendary treasure. The story is filled with imaginative perils, exciting discoveries, and a sense of mystery that keeps the reader engaged. The writing style is described as addictive, entertaining, and easy to read, transporting readers to a different time and place with its vivid descriptions and captivating storyline.
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The book contains outdated depictions and language regarding race, as well as themes that may be considered condescending or simplistic.
From The Publisher:
Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career.
His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good, have a map-drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountain, to the greatest treasure in all Africa-the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself!
Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon's Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent.
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Ratings (8)
Loved It (5) | |
Liked It (2) | |
Did Not Like (1) |
Reader Stats (27):
Read It (9) | |
Want To Read (12) | |
Did Not Finish (1) | |
Not Interested (5) |
2 comment(s)
Well at least I can say I read it. But sadly did not enjoy it. Very much a product of its time and there where a lot I didn't like to read about. But also I found it rather dull and boring. I think I borrowed another book by this author, so I should probebly read that as well but I don't really feel excited.
This is a hard one to rate. It was written in 1885 by a white Englishman who had worked in the colonizing force in southern Africa, and it is just as racist, sexist, imperialist, and colonialist as that would lead you to expect. He just has no respect for people of African descent or the cultures of Africa, and when one of them does get a compliment it is extremely back-handed. But it's a compelling adventure tale, and the writing is much more straightforward than I expected -- I had braced myself for Dickensian levels of sentence complexity, and it's a lot more modern-feeling than that.
About the Author:
H. Rider Haggard is the author of KING SOLOMON'S MINES.
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