King Solomon's Mines
Autor H. Rider Haggard Editat de Robert Hampson Prefață de Giles Fodenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141439525
ISBN-10: 0141439521
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141439521
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Sir
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
famousTreasure
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 acclaimedThe 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.
Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1972 where he was brought up. His first novel, the acclaimedThe 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.
Recenzii
My grandfather used to tell me about King Solomon's Mines; how he repeatedly gave up on the book before he was
eventually won over by this tale of Allan Quatermain, a hunter who leads an expedition in search of a vanished English explorer in the African jungle ... And my grandfather was right: the narrative has all the unstoppable momentum of a charging rhinoceros.
eventually won over by this tale of Allan Quatermain, a hunter who leads an expedition in search of a vanished English explorer in the African jungle ... And my grandfather was right: the narrative has all the unstoppable momentum of a charging rhinoceros.
Caracteristici
Contains extra material for young readers, including a glossary and a test-yourself quiz