About this audiobook
Allan Quatermain agrees to guide Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good on a journey into the African interior in search of Curtis's missing brother. An old map connects their route with the legendary mines of King Solomon. The promise of discovery brings them across difficult terrain and into circumstances in which preparation cannot remove the need for judgement.
H. Rider Haggard combines an expedition narrative with encounters that change the travellers' understanding of their mission. The companions bring different abilities to the journey, while local knowledge becomes essential to decisions about survival. Beyond the challenge of reaching a distant destination lie relationships and conflicts they could not have anticipated from a map.
The novel explores loyalty, endurance and the attractions of a hidden world. Its imaginative geography gives the adventure a broad scale, inviting readers to follow how an undertaking associated with lost wealth becomes a test of cooperation and the ability to respond when familiar assumptions prove inadequate.
