H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines: "Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth."

KING SOLOMON'S MINES is the story of Allan Quatermain, wild game hunter and explorer, who tells of his adventures with Danish adventurer Sir Henry Curtis and Royal Navy Officer Captain Good. Hired by Curtis to lead the quest to find his lost brother, who vanished while searching for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon, Quatermain becomes involved in a dangerous expedition through the unexplored African wilderness. Led by an ancient map passed down from a 16th-century Portuguese explorer, their journey takes them across deserts, over mountains, and into the hands of a sinister African tribe ...