William Richard Bradshaw ~6 hr read

A polar expedition passes through the gulf at the top of the world into a hollow Earth, and discovers Atvatabar, a wondrous inner-world civilization ruled by a beautiful living goddess.

William R. Bradshaw's 1892 novel is a lavish hollow-earth utopia and lost-world romance. Ornate, imaginative, richly illustrated. Read it for a sumptuous Victorian voyage into the world within the world, a marvelous inner realm of strange science and religion, and the goddess at its glittering heart.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).