King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard Hardcover Book

Title: King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard Hardcover Book.
Author: H Rider Haggard.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: Classic Adventure Series, 1991.
Publisher: The Thames Publishing Co.
Year First Published: 1885.
Format: Hardcover Book.
Printed By: Industria Grafica Barcelona.
Page Count: 214 pages.
Width: 12.5cm
Height: 20.0cm
Thickness: 1.2cm
Info: King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. 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. Haggard dedicated this book to his childhood idol Sir Humphry Davy.
Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War, where he had been impressed by South Africa's vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities, such as Great Zimbabwe, being uncovered. His original Allan Quatermain character was based in large part on Frederick Selous, the British white hunter and explorer of Africa. Selous's real-life experiences provided Haggard with the background and inspiration for this and many later stories. wikipedia.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Previous owners inscription front papers. Corners are good and no foxing or tanning, pages are clean.
Price: R 125.00 Inc Vat.