A lot of books have aged badly, but some are worse than others. This is one of the worst, in my opinion.I always try to make allowances for the time in which a book was written, but this one has aged so badly that it’s just impossible to find the good in it. To be fair, it is both dated AND the kind of book I would never enjoy anyway, so there's that.King Solomon's Mines is an adventure/survival story about three white guys trekking across Southern Africa murdering herds of African elephants for...

Thriller escapism in the Victorian style!Like many of its contemporaries - Edgar Rice Burrough's Caspak, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, Jules Verne's subterranean Lidenbrock Sea and even HG Well's Island of Dr Moreau - KING SOLOMON'S MINES is a story of adventure into an exotic locale and can be summarized with the broadest brush in the most general terms as Indiana Jones with Victorian sensibilities and motives. Allan Quatermain, a gentleman adventurer who has by a combination of good luc...

Sir H. (Henry) Rider Haggard the British inventor of the lost civilization adventures stories has here one of his most famous and best, King Solomon's Mines a wonderful if improbable trek through the thick jungles, high mountains, scorching deserts of this fascinating land. For any person interested in this fun type of genre and those discovering it , a new captivating city quite old in reality, hidden from our knowledge for thousands of years is found, obviously I shouldn't need to say for the...

What wild adventures are those of Allan Quatermain and his companions!Rider Haggard gleefully slaughters some elephants and giraffes to feed our treasure hunters. By the way, the heroes help restore a rightful heir to his throne - just that.The book is captivating, and I walked around it pleasantly, like in some Jules Verne novel.These King Solomon Mines are the goal of an odyssey that cannot enrich the European trio too much. Solomon's treasures are damn well protected!As for the slightly conde...

دمج رائع بين التاريخ والخيال والعصر الذي عاش فيه الكاتب. احداث مشوقة وسريعة وغامضة تنتقل من مشهد الى اخر.

كنوز الملك سليمان يحصل عليها المغامرون بعد مغامرتهم الرائعة ولكن لكل منهم كنزه ومن يضحك آخراً يضحك كثيرا.

واختار افريقيا مسرحا لهذه الرواية مع ان تاريخيا كانت مملكة سليمان في آسيا. لان افريقيا تبقى القارة الغامضة وخاصة في عصر كتابة الرواية .

جميلة ومثيرة ومشوقة

هل أنا جنتلمان؟هكذا تساءل ألان كوارترمين في ذكرى ميلاده ال55لقد عملت بيدي منذ سن 11 و لقد قتلت عشرات الرجال لكني لم الوث يدي بدم بريء لقد صرعت 65اسدا و كان لابد ان ينهش ساقي الأسد السادس و الستين"افلنشد الرحال لافريقيا مع رواية حملات كلاسيكية {لكن نحن في أفريقيا اصلا💃}نتعرف على البريطانيين مهاوييس التنقيب عن الكنوز و الآثار حملة انقاذ ممزوجة بالبحث عن كنز و بالطبع سرعان ما تتحول ككل قصص المغامرات"لصراع على البقاء احياء" و قطعة واحدة اهم ما في هذه الروايات التي تنتمي لعهد الاستعمار 1885 الا نحمل...

***2017 Summer Lovin’ Reading List*** King Solomon’s Mines is very much a product of its Victorian, colonial times. Don’t go into this book expecting anything else. Allan Quartermain is an unlikely protagonist, an elephant hunter, something that would get him publically shamed on the internet nowadays. This is very much an adventure tale, set in deepest, darkest Africa. White men have no doubt that they are at the very tippy-top of the social hierarchy and have no compunctions about expressin...

This book was written for men like Haggard, stupid Victorian men with small minds and no heart. They are the brutes. They are the uncivilised savage. And this is what children were given to read at the time? This is what they saw as an “adventure?” How could Achebe attack Conrad when drivel like this is the cannon? This is a disgusting product of history, one the world is better off forgetting.Sure, you may argue that Haggard displays the Africans as civilised. And to an extent he does. They hav...

I have always been fascinated by treasure hunt books and this book surpassed my expectations. A real adventure it was! It's a story of survival, revenge, the making of a king, greatest treasure hunt, and friendship. I was hooked from the start and the story just got more riveting with every page. This book reminded me of many adventure movies, both from Hollywood and Bollywood (it is the nickname for the Hindi language film industry, based in Mumbai, India). And now I can guess where those mov...

This book is the response to a five-shilling dare from Haggard's brother that he couldn't write a book half as good as Treasure Island. Haggard was enormously popular in his time; he and Robert Louis Stevenson were the two dominant adventure writersIt's enormously imaginative. Alan Quatermain is a brilliant character, a wiry and wily old Ulysses who describes himself as a coward. There's a scene near the end involving artificial stalagmites that's exhilaratingly evocative and creative (and creep...