Publisher's Synopsis
Allan Quatermain, wild game hunter and explorer, narrates his adventures with Danish adventurer Sir Henry Curtis and Royal Navy Officer Captain Good. Hired by Curtis, Quatermain leads the quest to find Curtis's lost brother - who vanished while searching for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon - and so 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...