Victor Appleton 3 hr 16 min read

Tom Swift builds a flying boat, an aircraft equally at home in the air and on the water, and sets off on an adventure of rescue, mystery, and peril across sea and sky.

Victor Appleton's 1923 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 flying boat, daring exploits, and thwarted villainy, 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 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Walter S. Rogers