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OverviewNew to Black Classics with a New Introduction by Giles Foden Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon... Full Product DetailsAuthor: H. Rider Haggard , Robert Hampson , Giles FodenPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Classics Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.237kg ISBN: 9780141439525ISBN 10: 0141439521 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 29 November 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA peculiarly thrilling and vigorous tale of adventure. Andrew Lang A peculiarly thrilling and vigorous tale of adventure. --Andrew Lang A peculiarly thrilling and vigorous tale of adventure. --Andrew Lang A peculiarly thrilling and vigorous tale of adventure. Andrew Lang Author InformationSir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a prolific English writer, who published colorful novels set in unknown regions and lost kingdoms of Africa, or some other corner of the world- Iceland, Constantinople, Mexico, Ancient Egypt. Haggard's best-known work is the romantic adventure tale KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1885), which was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson' s famous Treasure Island. Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1972 where he was brought up. His first novel, the acclaimed The Last King of Scotland (1998), is set during Idi Amin's rule of Uganda in the 1970s and won the Whitbread First Novel Award; his second novel, Ladysmith (1999), is set during the Anglo-Boer War in 1899; Zanzibar (2002), is set in East Africa and explores the events surrounding the bombings of American embassies in 1998. A new book, The Battle for Lake Tanganyika, was published in 2004. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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