Margaret Burnham 3 hr 3 min read

'Roy! Roy! where are you?' Peggy Prescott comes flying down the brick path, newspaper in hand, to the shed where her brother is hammering at the Golden Butterfly, their homebuilt aeroplane.

Margaret Burnham's 1910 novel is a brisk juvenile aviation-adventure from the Girl Aviators series. Fast, wholesome, of its era. Read it for a spirited early-aviation adventure with a plucky heroine, where a mysterious phantom airship draws the young flyers into danger and mystery aloft.

In its time

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

Reading it

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