Gilbert Collins 4 hr 52 min read

In his frozen Peking rooms one bitter January morning, the narrator opens the day's paper, the start of a tale that will lead to a hidden valley of unseen eyes in the heart of Asia.

Gilbert Collins's 1923 novel is a rousing lost-world adventure. Vivid, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for a colorful 1920s lost-race romance in the grand tradition, an expedition into the unmapped wilds of Central Asia toward a hidden valley of marvels and menace, told with the exotic sweep that thrilled readers of the great age of lost-world fiction.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).