Welcome to Litsy!

📚📚📚 Published in the 1880‘s as an adventure novel that inspired such legends as Indians Jones, this novel is just interesting enough for the imagination to fill in the blanks - especially for its first readers. Modern readers might find it stilted, slow, & out of sync with modern ideologies. Keep historical context in mind if you choose to read this.

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 149.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

Three Englishmen go in search of the legendary mines with the help of an ancient map, participate in a civil war, then discover a hoard of riches in a hidden cave. Today, the novel seems racist and misogynist, but it‘s a gripping #adventurous tale, nevertheless. Very Indiana Jones-like.
#augustabc

“Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.”

#QuotsyMar19 | 13: #Jewel

📷: Made with Typorama

Book - King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard
Author - Sophie Kinsella
Movie - The King's Speech
Food - Key Lime Pie

#ManicMonday #LetterK

#map, #1001, #reading1001. #adventure

#TBRtakedown, #reading1001, #1001.

Saw this on Twitter and knew exactly what to do with it...come straight on here and find people who would also love it!! On a side note, will I ever get to read anything again that's NOT for my english lit course? #currentlyreading

Finished this one this morning at breakfast. I loved this adventure story. #serialreader

Just started this 19th century adventure classic on Serial Reader: Alan Quartermain heads off on an expedition with 2 others into the interior of Africa to search for a missing person. Nothing like old fashioned British colonialism, casual racism, and killing elephants to start things off! :-/

I had never heard of this story and I expected little of it, but instead I enjoyed it thoroughly! An old fashioned adventure story, which gripped me from the first page.

It is the adventure of three English men in colonial Africa, looking for the brother of one of them and meeting with quite a few challenges.

It did remind me a bit of Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but I liked this one much better! #1001books

At the risk of posting a really boring photo for a glamorous prompt... here is my book for #lyricalApril #diamonds.

I don't have any books with diamonds on the cover but I did read this book on kindle and diamonds play a prominent role

I read this book when I was in school and I remember the mine was full of gold and #diamonds.
#lyricalapril

Over 24h of travel to get back home! 50pages into the first book - something tells me I'm gonna need more books eventually!

I want name my future child Quatermain so that he will be a badass.

Daring explorers plunge into the uncharted depths of Africa in seek of family, adventure, and Biblical riches. A great "summer blockbuster" of a book for fans of Indiana Jones. (And if you enjoy it, there are approximately a zillion more books featuring the main character!)