Roy Rockwood 3 hr 19 min read

Driven from town, two boys are rescued by a mysterious inventor and his marvelous airship, and swept off on a daring flight to seek the North Pole, through eagles, tornadoes, and Esquimaux.

Roy Rockwood's 1906 novel launches the Great Marvel juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, imaginative. Read it for the first rousing boys' adventure of the beloved series, a wondrous airship, a polar quest, and nonstop peril and marvels, in the brisk, exciting style that made Great Marvel a landmark of early juvenile science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).