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That may sound sappy, but it’s true.īriefly, this story is about a young Allan Quatermain who, in concert with a small pack of men, decides to risk their lives in a cross-desert search for King Solomon’s lost diamond mines in the hidden mountains of Africa. Alas, a decade or more passed before I ever returned to another of his rags, and doing so felt as though I was coming home. Many years ago, I had read Rider’s best-selling tale, She, a book which made me realize how simply movie-like old adventures could be! I loved the book, and felt that Haggard would become an instant favorite of mine. Rider Haggard was an adventure novelist worth reading, and this Allan Quatermain original did not disappoint. This fifth book (of ten) in our Siblings’ Book Club for 2021 scratched my every itch.
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