Charles B. Stilson 3 hr 13 min read

'North! North! To the north, Polaris!' With his dying breath the old man commands his snow-born son to leave the antarctic wilds and find the world of men.

Charles B. Stilson's 1915 novel launches his beloved Polaris lost-world saga. Vivid, romantic, foundational period pulp. Read it for the rousing origin of a hero raised alone at the bottom of the world, setting out to discover the human race and a hidden antarctic kingdom.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 13 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).