H. Rider (Henry Rider) HaggardVerified

A novel from 1885 in which Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into unmapped Africa to find a missing man's brother and King Solomon's legendary treasure. The party crosses a deadly desert and reaches a hidden kingdom under a ruthless king.

A Gothic adventure novel from 1887. Cambridge don Horace Holly and his young ward travel into Africa to find a lost kingdom, where the Amahagger people are ruled by the immortal sorceress Ayesha, who has waited more than two millennia for her lover.