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The most famous work of the cycle about the favorite hero - an adventurer, a master marksman and an ideal English gentleman Allan Quartermaine.
Allan Quartermaine and a motley company of his companions are sent into the wilds of Africa - to meet adventures, in search of a lost city, founded in ancient times by King Solomon himself.
Legend has it that the largest, most precious diamonds of Africa are mined in this city. But the way there is not close and dangerous, and those who have reached the mines of King Solomon have never returned.
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About H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Norfolk, England. After failing the Army entrance exam, he went to Natal in 1875 as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer and the next year went to the Transvaal. He returned to England in 1881, married, and settled down to a literary life. His first novel, King Solomon’s Mines, was published in 1885. He published thirty-four adventure novels during his lifetime. He was knighted in 1912.