Frank Reade Junior And His Greyhound of the Air

An eccentric old sailor tells an improbable tale: a city of gold lies in the heart of that wildest and most unexplored continent on Earth, Australia. Resting high inside an inaccessible mountain and guarded by tribes of ferocious wild men lie the forgotten remains of a lost civilization seemingly built by King Midas himself! Entranced by the promise of archeological discovery, young Frank Reade Junior, the world's greatest inventor, assembles a crew to man his incredible new flying invention, the Greyhound.But little does America's greatest genius suspect that his crew carries a man marked for death! A deranged blood-avenger has sworn to destroy not only his unfortunate victim, but also all who dare stand in his way. Can even the fastest airship ever created be speedy enough to flee the implacable agent of death itself?The Cuban-American Jules Verne, Luis Senarens, takes us on another startling adventure in this classic 1889 science fiction tale!