Ludvig Holberg 2 hr 13 min read

A man falls through a cave into a subterranean solar system and tours the philosophical civilization of the planet Nazar, peopled by sentient, walking trees.

This English edition presents Ludvig Holberg's 1741 'Niels Klim's Underground Travels,' an Enlightenment classic of hollow-earth satire. Witty, imaginative, foundational. Read it for a landmark subterranean-world satire in the tradition of Swift, surveying the customs of its tree-folk.

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

2 hr 13 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).