Roy Rockwood 3 hr 38 min read

In a wondrous airship, a party of explorers descends toward the mystery at the center of the Earth, a hidden world of giants and marvels five thousand miles below.

Roy Rockwood's 1908 boys' adventure, part of the Great Marvel Series, is a rousing hollow-earth romp in the Vernian tradition. Fast, illustrated, wide-eyed juvenile SF. Read it for classic turn-of-the-century adventure, plunging young readers into a subterranean world of wonders.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).