H. Rider Haggard

En esta obra, inédita en español hasta nuestros días, el autor de “Las minas del rey Salomón” esboza un fresco del mundo medieval que el protagonista recorrerá de un extremo a otro, buscando a una mu

Contiene casi todo lo que una historia de aventuras debe tener. Tres hombres parten en una emocionante expedición a través del Africa desconocida en busca de un tesoro. Se enfrentan a una desesperada lucha por la supervivencia en un despiadado y abrasador desierto. Una vez los viajeros alcanzan el reino desconocido de los Kukuanas, sus aventuras se multiplican. Se encuentran asimismo en conflicto con el infame Twala, el jefe tuerto de los Kukuanas, aaayudado por la temida vieja bruja Gagool. Ellos son aterrorizados testigos de una caceria de brujas sedientas de sangre y casi son asesinados por ellos mismos.Finalmente hay una gran batalla entre las fuerzas de Twala y los guerreros de su adversario Ignosi.

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On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has been waiting for centuries for the true descendant of Kallikrates, her murdered lover, to arrive, and arrive he does - in an unexpected form. Blending breathtaking adventure with a brooding sense of mystery and menace, She is a story of romance, exploration discovery and heroism that has lost none of its power to enthrall.

On board a ship bound for Natal, adventurer Allan Quatermain meets Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good. His new friends have set out to find Sir Henry's younger brother, who vanished while seeking King Solomon's legendary diamond mines in the African interior. By strange chance, Quatermain has a map to the mines, drawn in blood, and agrees to join the others on their perilous journey. The travellers face many dangers on their quest - the baking desert heat, the hostile lost tribe they discover and the evil 'wise woman' who holds the secret of the diamond mines. "King Solomon's Mines" is a brilliant adventure that has gripped generations. An unabridged reading by Toby Stephens.

The first novel in a series about Ayesha, or She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, an immortal queen who lives in, and rules, the lost city of Kor. When two explorers, Professor Holly and his companion, Leo Vincey, stumble onto the city, Ayesha suspects that Vincey is the reincarnation of her long long love and tries to grant him immortality.

Alan Quartermain, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good have travelled a long way over difficult country to the hidden land of the Kukuanas in search of King Solomon's treasure. They find enough diamonds to make them the richest men in Europe but has the treasure caught them in a trap?