Victor Appleton 3 hr 7 min read

Hired by a circus man to capture a living giant, Tom Swift journeys to a strange land of giants, and, taken captive himself, must make a daring escape by airship.

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, an exotic land of giants, captivity and escape, and airship heroics, 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

3 hr 7 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).