Unknown author 4 hr 48 min read

A Victorian boys'-adventure writer sends young heroes to the red planet, with 'a little wholesome instruction' along the way.

Fenton Ash's 1909 juvenile romance, gorgeously illustrated, carries its young readers to Mars in the earnest tradition of instructive Edwardian adventure, blending fanciful flights with a 'quasi-scientific foundation.' A charming period artifact of the era when interplanetary fiction was written to thrill and educate the young. Read it for wholesome, wide-eyed Edwardian planetary adventure from the boys'-paper tradition.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 48 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

William H. C. Groome