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- English
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On a Torn-Away World
About this book
Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adventure books. The name is mostly well-remembered for the Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926-1937) and Great Marvel series (1906- 1935). The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, and others. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, whose ambition was to be a writer la Horatio Alger. He succeeded in this ambition (eventually even writing eleven books under the pseudonym "Horatio Alger"), turning out inspirational, up-by-the-bootstraps tales. In Stratemeyer's view, it was not the promise of sex or violence that made such reading attractive to boys; it was the thrill of feeling "grown-up" and the desire for a series of stories, an "I want some more" syndrome. Works written under that name include: Five Thousand Miles Underground; or, The Mystery of the Centre of the Earth (1908), Jack North's Treasure Hunt (1907) and Lost on the Moon; or, In Quest of the Field of Diamonds (1911).
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Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. SHOT INTO THE AIR
- CHAPTER II. MARK HANGS ON
- CHAPTER III. THE FLIGHT OF THE SNOWBIRD
- CHAPTER IV. "WHO GOES THERE?"
- CHAPTER V. BETWEEN TWO PERILS
- CHAPTER VI. ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND
- CHAPTER VII. DROPPED FROM THE SKY
- CHAPTER VIII. PHINEAS ROEBACH, OIL HUNTER
- CHAPTER IX. THE EARTHQUAKE
- CHAPTER X. THE BLACK DAY
- CHAPTER XI. THE WONDERFUL LEAP
- CHAPTER XII. THE GEYSER
- CHAPTER XIII. NATURE GONE MAD
- CHAPTER XIV. ON THE WING AGAIN
- CHAPTER XV. A PLUNGE TO THE ICE
- CHAPTER XVI. PROFESSOR HENDERSON REVEALS THE TRUTH
- CHAPTER XVII. ON AN ISLAND IN THE AIR
- CHAPTER XVIII. IMPRISONED IN THE ICE
- CHAPTER XIX. A NIGHT ATTACK
- CHAPTER XX. THE HEROISM OF THE SHANGHAI ROOSTER
- CHAPTER XXI. MARK ON GUARD
- CHAPTER XXII. THE WOLF TRAIL
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE FIGHT AT ALEUKAN
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE FLIGHT TOWARD THE COAST
- CHAPTER XXV. THE HERD OF KADIAKS
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE ABANDONED CITY
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE WHALE HUNT ASHORE
- CHAPTER XXVIII. ON THE WHALING BARK
- CHAPTER XXIX. WHEN THE SEA ROLLED BACK
- CHAPTER XXX. AN ENDURING MONUMENT--CONCLUSION