C. H. Robinson 1 hr 3 min read

In the dawn of humanity, the clever cave-dweller Longhead discovers fire, and with it, weapons, cooked food, and the first stirrings of society, art, and religion.

C. H. Robinson's 1913 novel is a vivid prehistoric adventure dramatizing the birth of civilization. Dramatic, imaginative, illustrated period fiction. Read it for a rousing evolutionary romance of early man's great leap forward, from the taming of the first flame.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 3 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Charles Livingston Bull