{"product_id":"king-solomons-mines-and-other-stories-9780099582823","title":"King Solomons Mines and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon''s mines.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon.In the course of a long life of close shaves, I never had such shaves as those which I have recently experienced. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, Gentleman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          \u003cb\u003eOne of the great page-turners in English literature' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great page-turners in English literature -- John Sutherland * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eI can distinctly remember handling the book as if it might somehow give me, a boy in Africa, magical access to the African adventures it contained. It still does now. I need only pick up this book and, like the door to Solomon's treasure chamber, a mass of stone rises from the floor and vanishes into the rock above\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e -- Giles Foden * Guardian *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732313354583,"sku":"9780099582823","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099582823.jpg?v=1719996372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/king-solomons-mines-and-other-stories-9780099582823","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}