Albert Daiber 2 hr 36 min read

Beneath the glittering constellations over Stuttgart, a band of adventurers prepares the airship Argonaut for a fantastic voyage to Mars.

Albert Daiber's 1901 Dutch edition presents an early German interplanetary adventure to the red planet. Imaginative, earnest, of its era. Read it for a founding continental vision of Martian travel, launching its explorers skyward from an old-world city, in Dutch.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 36 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

André Vlaanderen