I am currently reading King Solomon's Mines by H.Rider Haggard. Got stuck at my grandmothers for a month as i was sick and all she has are those cheep paperbacks you get in the $2 bin at the newsagents. Found this interesting volume on one of her dusty shelves. Apparently they made it into a movie back when Sharon Stone was in her late teens. Basically 3 very colonial British men set out with a small company of native servants across a South African dessert to Sheba's left breast, on a suicide mission in search of one of their fellows who had gone missing 2years prior. Following a map drawn by a dead man with his own blood on his shirt tail, they suffer heat, thirst, hunger and freezing temperatures not to mention mysterious natives who knows what next. I haven't got to the end yet but have been enjoying the read. It uses allot of very colonial language quite a bit of which i know my West African husband would not approve of, but that's how it was back then. The story is very well written captivating the time and place beautifully. Plenty of mystery and adventure, not to mention elephant hunting. Would completely recommend to anyone with a taste for adventure and native voodoo.
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