Ingersoll Lockwood 4 hr 2 min read

The globe-trotting boy adventurer Baron Trump descends into a fantastic underground world of strange peoples and marvels.

Ingersoll Lockwood's 1893 children's fantasy sends its precocious little baron (and his dog) on a hollow-Earth expedition full of wonders and whimsy, in the tradition of Verne and the tall-tale voyage. A curious, once-obscure Victorian juvenile that has drawn odd modern fame for its title character's name. Read it for an inventive nineteenth-century underground adventure, bright with period fancy.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 2 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Charles Howard Johnson