Anna Adolph 1 hr 48 min read

A woman invents a coach that is also ship and balloon, and sets off with her loved ones for the marvels of the North Pole.

Anna Adolph's 1899 novel is a delightful oddity of amateur utopian fiction, its narrator conjuring a fantastical all-terrain vehicle to reach a polar realm of wonders. Sincere, eccentric, and self-published, it's a rare woman-authored voyage-fantasy of its era. Read it for a charming, one-of-a-kind Victorian adventure to a marvelous Arctic, dreamed up by a genuine original.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 48 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).