Unknown author 4 hr 29 min read

Five days out from Celebes, the crew hauls aboard a strange floating cask, the first clue in a voyage toward a discovery that will overturn all we know of the Earth.

Charles Willing Beale's 1899 novel is an imaginative lost-world and hollow-earth adventure. Vivid, speculative, of its era. Read it for a Victorian scientific-adventure romance where a mysterious message at sea leads to an aerial expedition and a startling secret hidden at the poles of the world.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

4 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).