Jos. E. Badger 3 hr 54 min read

Professor Featherwit, riding a tornado in his airship, is carried to an unknown land and stumbles upon the Lost City of the Aztecs, still peopled by the Children of the Sun God.

Jos. E. Badger's 1898 dime novel is a rousing lost-world invention-adventure. Fast, colorful, gloriously pulpy. Read it for a classic boys' adventure where an eccentric professor's flying machine and a wild storm lead to a hidden Aztec city, full of marvels, peril, and derring-do.

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).