King Solomon's Mines
Legendary diamond expedition
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 adventure novel by H.
Rider Haggard, following explorers searching for legendary diamond mines in Africa.
The title has become shorthand for any fabled lost treasure or hidden source of wealth: They thought the startup would be King Solomon's Mines, but it went bankrupt within a year.
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- AfricaSecond-largest continent
- explorerOne who investigates unfamiliar regions
- diamondsPrecious crystallized carbon
Haggard · safari · white hunter · jungle · lost · lost city · ancient · map · expedition · buried treasure · colonial · caves · ivory · Sheba · quest · mysterious · hidden · wilderness
- Lost Mines
- Adventure BooksTreasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, The Hobbit, Hatchet, Swiss Family Robinson
- adventure fictionpirates, treasure hunts, shipwrecks, sea voyages, exploration
- 1880s LiteratureTreasure Island, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Ben-Hur, Heidi
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- Colonial LiteratureHeart of Darkness, Kim, The Jungle Book, Robinson Crusoe, Joseph Conrad