“King Solomon’s Mines” is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of King Solomon’s mines in an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.

The original flavour of this classic has been carefully retained in this abridged version.