King Solomon's Mines

The first great Lost World” action-adventure—a precursor to Indiana Jones H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mineshas entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend—and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they discover a frozen corpse, survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts, and encounter the merciless King Twala en route to the legendary hoard of diamonds.

H. Rider Haggard (1856-û1925) is also the author of Allan Quartermain and She.
Giles Foden is the author of The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-ûwinning film in 2006.
Robert Hampson is a professor of modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.