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Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. James De Mille's "A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder" is the fifth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Four bored men, basking away on their... Read Full Overview

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. James De Mille's "A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder" is the fifth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Four bored men, basking away on their... Read Full Overview

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) is a novel by James De Mille. Originally serialized in Harper's Weekly, the novel was published posthumously and, at first, anonymously. Although De Mille's work predated such popular Lost World novels as... Read Full Overview

Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the southern hemisphere. They read its contents out to one another, and the incredible story unfolds of his journey to a lost world which survives at the... Read Full Overview

With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.

-Stranded in a lost world where darkness and death are reverenced. -Includes 22 Illustrations. -An early science fiction novel, reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughs' The... Read Full Overview

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) is a novel by James De Mille. Originally serialized in Harper's Weekly, the novel was published posthumously and, at first, anonymously. Although De Mille's work predated such popular Lost World novels as... Read Full Overview

Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The manuscript recounts Adam More's adventures after being lost at sea during an Antarctic... Read Full Overview

A pioneering work of lost-world fiction, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is a thrilling blend of adventure, satire, and early science fiction. First published posthumously in 1888, James De Mille's novel follows an explorer who stumbles upon an isolated civilization... Read Full Overview

A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder is a novel written by James De Mille. The story revolves around four sailors who discover a copper cylinder while sailing in the South Pacific. Inside the cylinder, they find a manuscript written by a man named Adam More, who claims... Read Full Overview

The main story of the novel is the narrative of the adventures of Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a homeward voyage from Tasmania. After passing through a tunnel of volcanic origin, he finds himself in a "lost world" of prehistoric animals, plants and people sustained... Read Full Overview

The satiric and fantastic romance is set in an imaginary semi-tropical land in Antarctica inhabited by prehistoric monsters and a cult of death-worshipers called the Kosekin.After passing through a subterranean tunnel of volcanic origin, he finds himself in a "lost world" of... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview