Albert Daiber 2 hr 33 min read

An Earthman, stranded on Mars, makes the long journey home, past the double canals of the red planet, out through the void, and by way of a station on the Moon back to Earth.

Albert Daiber's 1910 novel, a sequel to his Mars book, is a rousing German juvenile space adventure. Vivid, educational, of its era. Read it for an early German interplanetary tale steeped in the Martian-canal astronomy of its day, a wonder-voyage from Mars back to Earth, richly imagined for young readers, in the tradition of the Vernian scientific romance, here in the original German.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 33 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Fritz Bergen