Rider Haggard

Broschiertes Buch

King Solomon's Mines and Other Stories

Beschreibung

Tells the history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon.

Autor

Henry Rider Haggard was born in Norfolk in 1856. His post of junior secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer meant that he travelled and he spent six years in South Africa . Haggard was bet by his brother that he could not write as good a novel as Stevenson's Treasure Island. The result of this bet was Haggard's 1885 book, King Solomon's Mines. It became a runaway bestseller so Haggard was able to leave London and concentrate on his writing. He published She in 1887. Andrew Lang thought She was 'one of the most astonishing romances I ever read. The more impossible it is, the better you do it, till it seems like a story from the literature of another planet'. Haggard died in 1925.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780099582823
• ISBN-10: 0099582821
• Artikelnr.: 37031462