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Loading... King Solomon's Mines (World's Best Reading) (original 1882; edition 1994)by H. Rider Haggard
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. hang in until you get past the first 100 pages or so ... about the time they find the "entrance" ... then don't plan on putting it down until you finish ( ) I loved this book. If not for the persistent casual racism (that thankfully mostly ceased after the first third, once the characters had left towns and civilisation for the desert and the mountains), it would have earned five stars. That kind of talk, that was prevalent for those first few chapters, cannot go unchallenged, though. What I long for is an adventure story told from the point of view of main characters of colour -- what of the African adventurers themselves who surely have histories and mythologies to share of their own culture? Of the Sherpas who tirelessly climb the slopes of Everest while the white people who pay them to carry all the gear garner the glory? Of the ancient southern, eastern, middle eastern and near eastern civilisations who built all of the magnificence characters like Quatermain, Umbopa, Curtis and Good seek? Those are surely magnificent, dramatic and exciting stories that deserve to be read as widely as those written by colonialists two centuries ago. Classic adventure story although the Victorian attitude towards the native 'savages' of Africa was a bit much in a few places. A word of warning to the squeamish, there are some pretty grisly parts although not too graphic by today's standards. Some significant differences from the Stewart Granger movie - most notably the fact that, instead of a wife searching for her lost husband, it is a brother which eliminates all the romantic aspects. I found Alan Quatermain a more interesting character as a widower & self-confessed coward than Granger's he-man (although I adore Stewart Granger). Overall, a better story than you might expect. Belongs to SeriesAllan Quatermain (11) Belongs to Publisher SeriesClub Joven Bruguera (25) Collins Classics (545) Dean's Classics (49) — 18 more El País. Aventuras (22) Grandes Novelas de Aventuras (XXXI) Henry Rider Haggard (Band 05) Imprint Society (1970) Laurel Leaf Library (4548) Puffin Story Books (111) Xabarín (31) Is contained inIs a retelling ofIs retold inIs an adaptation ofHas the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a student's study guideNotable Lists
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HTML: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party. The book became an immediate bestseller after publication in 1885. At the time large parts of Africa remained unexplored by Europeans and the book captured the imagination of the public. .No library descriptions found.
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