King Solomon's Mines
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King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. Published by Cassell and Company, it tells of an expedition through an unexplored
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The way to Kukuanaland
"To those who enter the hall of the dead, evil comes"; Walter Paget
Cover art from King Solomon's Mines, Avon Periodicals, 1951, art by Lee J. Ames.
Congo (novel)
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Congo is a 1980 lost world science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigatin
King Solomon's Mines
…also visited several lost cities, and Lee Falk's The Phantom was initially written in this genre. A much later Lost World novel is Michael Crichton's Congo, which is set in the 1970s and features characters seeking a trove of diamonds in the lost city of Zinj for use in electronic components rather than…
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