Résumé
The elephant hunter, Allan Quartermain, is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good in Africa, asking for his help finding Sir Henry’s brother, who has gone missing trying to locate a treasure. Quartermain agrees on one condition: he gets a share of their findings if they succeed. Soon he finds himself leading an expedition into unexplored territory, which turns out to be far more dangerous than anyone had imagined. Through tribal wars, animal attacks and near starvation the group ventures on. Little do they know that the biggest danger still lies ahead.When his brother bet him five shillings that he could not write a novel half as good as Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’, H. Rider Haggard wrote ‘King Solomon's Mines’, and it became the best-selling novel of the year. It has been adapted to film and TV numerous times, even seeing Patrick Swayze as Quartermain.
Auteur
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Henri Rider Haggard (1856-1925) participa à l'administration coloniale anglaise du sud de l'Afrique, au Natal et au Transvaal. Il puise dans ce vécu africain pour Les Mines du roi Salomon (1885) qui fut un immense succès. Son personnage d'Allan Quatermain poursuit avec le même bonheur ses aventures fantastiques, avant de se réincarner une demi-douzaine de fois au cinéma.
Auteur(s) : Henry Rider Haggard
Caractéristiques
Editeur : Saga Egmont International
Auteur(s) : Henry Rider Haggard
Publication : 21 octobre 2020
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 502 ko (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9789176394090
