Victor Appleton 2 hr 58 min read

Tom Swift builds an air glider and flies off to the wilds of Russia and Siberia, braving spies, the Czar's agents, and a prison mine, in quest of a lost platinum treasure.

Victor Appleton's 1912 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a marvelous glider, an exotic treasure hunt, and narrow escapes, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 58 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).