Victor Appleton 3 hr 14 min read

Tom Swift and his powerful new explosive drive a great tunnel through the Andes, and stumble upon a hidden city, mysterious disappearances, and the perils of the high mountains of Peru.

Victor Appleton's 1916 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a mighty engineering feat, a lost-city mystery, and exotic peril, 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 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 14 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).