Robert Paltock 3 hr 55 min read

The second volume of Peter Wilkins's adventures: deeper among the flying Glums and Gawrys of his hidden polar world, their laws, customs, and the shipwrecked Cornishman's transactions among them.

Robert Paltock's 1751 novel is a classic of early imaginative fiction, a beloved fantasy-voyage in the Crusoe tradition. Charming, inventive, historically important. Read it for the continuing wonders of a lost world of flying people, a landmark of proto-science fiction that enchanted the Romantic poets.

In its time

Published in 1751, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

3 hr 55 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).