معدن‌های پادشاه سلیمان

SUMMARY: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate ''reader friendly'' type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged.This edition of King Solomon's Mines includes a Foreword and Biographical Note from the Publisher.Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career.His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain john Good, have a map--drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountain, to the greatest treasure in all Africa--the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself!Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon's Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent. Renowned safari hunter Allan Quartermain agrees to help Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good search for King Solomon’s legendary cache of diamonds. Eager to find out what is true, what is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of the mines, the tireless adventurers delve into the Sahara’s treacherous Veil of Sand, where they stumble upon a mysterious lost tribe of African warriors. Finding themselves in deadly peril from that country’s cruel king and the evil sorceress who conspires behind his throne, the explorers escape, but what they seek could be the most savage trap of all - the forbidden, impenetrable, and spectacular King Solomon’s Mines. Following a map drawn 300 years ago by a dying man, three adventurers set out in search of the legendary riches of King Solomon's diamond mines. On their journey they will have to cross deserts, mountains and inhabitants that kill strangers. Will they make the journey and become the richest men on Earth? Promoted as “the most amazing book ever written,” King Solomon’s Mines enjoyed lavish success. As far as adventure stories go, this classic tale of English travelers who discover a lost African kingdom rivals Treasure Island. An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history.