Ruth Plumly Thompson 2 hr 52 min read

Sam Salt sets sail on the good ship Crescent Moon to discover new countries for Oz, and turns up a whole new hemisphere.

Ruth Plumly Thompson's 1936 Oz book (continuing L. Frank Baum's series) sends the seafaring Captain Salt on a voyage of exploration and annexation across uncharted Ozian waters. A charming entry in the century-old Oz canon, illustrated by John R. Neill. Read it for buoyant fairy-kingdom adventure from Oz's second Royal Historian.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

2 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Dick Martin