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- English
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Five Thousand Miles Underground
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
- CHAPTER I. WASHINGTON BACKS OUT
- CHAPTER II. THE FLYING MERMAID
- CHAPTER III. WASHINGTON DECIDES
- CHAPTER IV. WHAT DID MARK SEE?
- CHAPTER V. ATTACKED BY A WHALE
- CHAPTER VI. THE CYCLONE
- CHAPTER VII. A QUEER SAIL
- CHAPTER VIII. THE FLYING MERMAID DISABLED
- CHAPTER IX. THE MUTINY
- CHAPTER X. FOOLING THEIR ENEMIES
- CHAPTER XI. MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS
- CHAPTER XII. THE BIG HOLE
- CHAPTER XIII. DOWN INTO THE EARTH
- CHAPTER XIV. MANY MILES BELOW
- CHAPTER XV. IN THE STRANGE DRAUGHT
- CHAPTER XVI. THE NEW LAND
- CHAPTER XVII. A STRANGE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XVIII. CAUGHT BY A STRANGE PLANT
- CHAPTER XIX. THE BIG PEACH
- CHAPTER XX. OVERHAULING THE SHIP
- CHAPTER XXI. THE FISH THAT WALKED
- CHAPTER XXII. THE SNAKE-TREE
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE DESERTED VILLAGE
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE GIANTS
- CHAPTER XXV. HELD BY THE ENEMY
- CHAPTER XXVI. A FRIEND INDEED
- CHAPTER XXVII. A GREAT JOURNEY
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE TEMPLE OF TREASURE
- CHAPTER XXIX. BACK HOME-- CONCLUSION