As Minas de Salomão
By H. Rider Haggard (translated by Eça de Queirós)
Cover: Hall of the Dead from King Solomon’s Mines by Walter Paget · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Eça de Queirós's Portuguese version of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. The hunter Allan Quatermain agrees to guide Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good into the African interior in search of Sir Henry's lost brother, following an old map towards a legendary treasure. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Encontro com os Meus Camaradas
- 2: Primeira Noticia das Minas de Salomão
- 3: O Homem Chamado Umbopa
- 4: Os Elephantes
- 5: A Nossa Entrada no Deserto
- 6: Penetramos no Reino dos Kakuanas
- 7: O Rei Tuala
- 8: A Grande Dança
- 9: Antes da Batalha
- 10: O Ataque da Collina
- 11: A Batalha de Lú
- 12: O Rei Ignosi
- 13: A Grande Caverna
- 14: O Thesouro de Salomão
- 15: Nas Entranhas da Terra
- 16: A Partida de Lú
- 17: Emfim!