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Title: King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Narrator: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-16

Publisher: FNH Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Famous elephant hunter Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis to help him search for his brother who disappeared in the heart of Africa.

When Allan accepts the job, little does he know that the quest for the missing man will drag him over mountains, through deserts, under ground and into the midst of a bloody war.

Members Reviews:

Thoroughly enjoyable read

I don't read novels real often and I really enjoyed this one. Written in first person from the point of view of a well traveled African guide and adventurer in the 1880s named Alan Quartermain.

He meets two English gentlemen on a ship voyage who hire him to guide him the legendary King Solomon's mines. Quartermain agrees to do so , fully expecting to not survive the arduous journey, but ensuring that his son who is attending medical school will be provided for in the event of his death.

Along the way to the mines the trio and their hired servants encounter deadly elephants, a blistering desert, unexpected deaths and an isolated tribe of Africans called Kukuanas.

It turns out one of the porters helping the expedition is actually the rightful king of this tribe and the 3 white adventurers help him regain control of his tribe while killing the current King in a brutal hand to hand combat scenario.

To show his gratefulness for regaining his kingship , Umbopa the porter/king sends them to the mines under the guide of an elderly witch woman Gagool who knows where the mines are.

The team makes it to the mines full of millions of dollars of diamonds, but are entombed inside the mine by Gagool. They spend a harrowing couple of days finding an alternate path out of the mines , return to Umbopa and head back to South Africa. On the way home they encounter the brother of one of the men who hired Quartermain, he had been missing for several years and a secondary objective of the trip was to try and find him.

This book is eminently readable, easily understood and held my attention. In fact it inspired a whole genre of books known as âLost world literary genre â

I heartily recommend this book , I think you will enjoy it.

Classic Pulp

This adventure yarn has stood the test of time. It has been made in to numerous film versions, one starring Stewart Granger and another starring Richard Chamberlain as Allen Quatermain. Some readers may only be familiar with the Quatermain character as he was portrayed by Sean Connery in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film (but that was an entirely different story.) The story is entertaining enough and fairly well written although one cannot confuse author, Haggard with classical authors. Still, the story is fun and packed with numerous life or death scrapes. Modern readers need to remember that this book was written long before the civil rights movement and may jar readers with racist language.

Excellent Adventure Yarn!

H. Rider Haggard lived in (what is now) South Africa from 1875 until he returned to London in 1882. He published his first novel, King Solomon's Mines in 1885, a fantastic adventure beginning in Durbin, South Africa and reaching to unexplored territories. It became an immediate best seller, and rightfully so.

The story is told in first person by Allan Quatermain, written as a manuscript for his son, though occasionally (a first novel mistake, it would seem), Quatermainaddresses "Reader", instead of his son as he does throughout most of the novel.