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The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Harry Collingwood is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Harry Collingwood then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

A story of aerial and submarine peril and adventure, originally published in 1887 -- adventures in the air and under the water of Professor Heinrich von Schalckenberg's airship/submarine built from the super-light metal (aethereum) he has discovered. Aetherum is a very light metal that looks like polished silver and has one hundred times the strength of the best steel. This is used to build the Flying Fish, a 600 foot long metal cylinder, sixty feet in diameter at the middle, which travels 120 miles-per-hour through the air and 150 miles-per-hour underwater. In this first novel of three (the others are With Airship and Submarine and The Cruise of the Flying Fish) the ship is used for salvage of various naval wrecks; an expedition to a warm sea in the North Pole, where they discover a herd of mammoth on an island; an expedition to Africa to locate unicorns and the site of King Solomon's Ophir; and finally a trip to Mount Everest. Harry Collingwood was the pseudonym of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (1851-1922), a civil engineer who specialized in seas and harbors. "Atop Everest -- to North Pole and darkest Africa. Wonderful discoveries -- mammoths and unicorns and unknown tribes." -- Leon Gammell "The Flying Fish, that marvellous achievement of science, actually surpasses all Jules Verne's creations; with incredible speed she flies through the air, skims over the surface of the water, and darts along the ocean bed. We strongly recommend our schoolboy friends to possess themselves of her log." -- Athenaeum

William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (1851-1922) was a civil engineer who specialised in seas and harbours. He wrote Juvenile Adventures under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood. His works include: The Secret of the Sands (1879), Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman During the French Revolutionary War (1884), The Voyage of the Aurora (1885), The Pirate Island: A Story of the West African Coast (1885), The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron (1886), The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure (1887), The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba (1888), The Missing Merchantman (1889), The Doctor of the Juliet (1892), Jack Beresford's Yarn (1896), For Treasure Bound (1897), The Log of a Privateersman (1897), The Homeward Voyage (1897), An Ocean Chase (1898), A Pirate of the Caribbees (1898), The Castaways (1899), Across the Spanish Main (1906), Dick Leslie's Luck (1906), Geoffrey Harrington's Adventures (1907), Blue and Grey (1908), With Airship and Submarine (1908), A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron (1909) and Two Gallant Sons of Devon (1913).

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.