This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big
boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more
accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into
the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon. In the course of a long
life of close shaves, I never had such shaves as those which I have recently experienced.
— Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, Gentleman
This week's book is King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.