First published in 1885, "King Solomon’s Mines" was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer Henry Rider Haggard. The novel relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the legendary wealth said to be concealed in the mines of the novel’s title. It is significant as the first fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.
