Ludvig Holberg 4 hr 37 min read

A man falls through the Earth into a subterranean solar system and tours the philosophical civilization of the planet Nazar, a Dutch 'Gulliver.'

This Dutch edition of Ludvig Holberg's 1741 'Niels Klim's Underground Travels' delivers his Enlightenment classic of hollow-Earth satire, surveying the customs and politics of its walking-tree inhabitants. A landmark of the imaginary voyage. Read it for a foundational subterranean-world satire in the tradition of Swift.

In its time

Published in 1741, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

4 hr 37 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).