Willis George Emerson 1 hr 6 min read

A Norwegian fisherman claims that he and his father sailed through a polar opening into the hollow interior of the Earth, a land of giants lit by a central 'Smoky God' sun.

Willis George Emerson's 1908 novel is a classic hollow-earth adventure, framed as true testimony. Imaginative, earnest, of its era. Read it for a cornerstone of inner-world fiction, a purported eyewitness account of a hidden civilization within the globe, a vivid Victorian-era vision that inspired later hollow-earth lore and legend.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 6 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).