Harold L. Goodwin 3 hr 24 min read

In the steaming cabin of the freighter Asiatic Dream, young inventor Rick Brant sails toward the Philippines and the head-hunter country of the Ifugaos, on the trail of a fabled golden skull.

Harold L. Goodwin's 1954 novel is a brisk juvenile science-adventure from the beloved Rick Brant series. Fast, clever, globe-trotting period SF. Read it for a rousing boys' mystery where scientific know-how and courage carry Rick and his friends into peril among the mountain tribes of the Philippines.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 24 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).