Hunter Allan Quatermain agrees to guide an expedition across desert and mountain in search of a missing man, following a crude map to the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon. What the party finds includes a hidden kingdom, a usurped throne and a battle that decides it.
Published in 1885, this is the book that founded the lost world adventure genre. Modern readers will spot its colonial era assumptions, and will also find, in Umbopa, one of the era’s most dignified African heroes.
