Treasure of Atlantis (The adventure classic!)
Book Details
Author(s)Tory Hageman, Allan Dunn
ISBN / ASINB00347ACQI
ISBN-13978B00347ACQ0
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
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Tory Hageman was a house pseudonym used by the Grates River Printing Company for action novels printed between 1899 and 1921. The publishing house specialized in producing books that were meant primarily to be entertaining and pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance writers to write the books, which were published under various pen names. Many of the writers later became famous under their real names.
'Treasure of Atlantis' was originally written by acclaimed pulp author J. Allan Dunn in 1915. It was later published as 'The Treasure of Atlantis' in the pulp, All Around, in 1916.
An orchid hunter's discovery is the catalyst that leads an expedition into the interior of South America to the lost remnant of ancient Atlantis. Cut off from the modern world, Atlantis offers the lure of the unknown, the grandeur of the fabled past, gladiator fights, queens, treasure, and swashbuckling action.
Here is thrilling adventure out of the past written in the Edgar Rice Burroughs tradition.
Stanley Morse, its hero, is strong and silent, and despite his position of wealth and influence in the world of more than ninety years ago, he's unhappy with civilization. His partner in exploration, a great archeologist, is a character that's part-Burroughs, part-Haggard, with more than a little of Conan Doyle's famous Professor Challenger about him.
This story was written to entertain--to quench the interest and appetite of the armchair adventurer. There is little doubt that 'Treasure of Atlantis' was written for the same audience that had made Burroughs' stories popular.
This is the original and unabridged version of this classic adventure tale. A must-have for fans of classic pulp action!
EXCERPT:
Stanley Morse looked at the orchid hunter as the latter leaned forward from the cozy depth of the saddlebag chair and stretched his lean hands to the blaze. The fingers were more like claws than human attributes; the whole man seemed little more than a well-preserved mummy, a strangely different person from the vigorous naturalist Morse remembered meeting three years before on the higher reaches of the Amazon—the "Flowing Road." The man's clothes hung in ludicrous folds about his gaunt frame, and he shivered despite the heat of the blazing logs that almost scorched his chair...
Tory Hageman was a house pseudonym used by the Grates River Printing Company for action novels printed between 1899 and 1921. The publishing house specialized in producing books that were meant primarily to be entertaining and pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance writers to write the books, which were published under various pen names. Many of the writers later became famous under their real names.
'Treasure of Atlantis' was originally written by acclaimed pulp author J. Allan Dunn in 1915. It was later published as 'The Treasure of Atlantis' in the pulp, All Around, in 1916.
An orchid hunter's discovery is the catalyst that leads an expedition into the interior of South America to the lost remnant of ancient Atlantis. Cut off from the modern world, Atlantis offers the lure of the unknown, the grandeur of the fabled past, gladiator fights, queens, treasure, and swashbuckling action.
Here is thrilling adventure out of the past written in the Edgar Rice Burroughs tradition.
Stanley Morse, its hero, is strong and silent, and despite his position of wealth and influence in the world of more than ninety years ago, he's unhappy with civilization. His partner in exploration, a great archeologist, is a character that's part-Burroughs, part-Haggard, with more than a little of Conan Doyle's famous Professor Challenger about him.
This story was written to entertain--to quench the interest and appetite of the armchair adventurer. There is little doubt that 'Treasure of Atlantis' was written for the same audience that had made Burroughs' stories popular.
This is the original and unabridged version of this classic adventure tale. A must-have for fans of classic pulp action!
EXCERPT:
Stanley Morse looked at the orchid hunter as the latter leaned forward from the cozy depth of the saddlebag chair and stretched his lean hands to the blaze. The fingers were more like claws than human attributes; the whole man seemed little more than a well-preserved mummy, a strangely different person from the vigorous naturalist Morse remembered meeting three years before on the higher reaches of the Amazon—the "Flowing Road." The man's clothes hung in ludicrous folds about his gaunt frame, and he shivered despite the heat of the blazing logs that almost scorched his chair...
