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Title: The Log of the Flying Fish
A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure

Author: Harry Collingwood

Illustrator: Gordon Browne

Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21057]

Language: English

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The Log of the "Flying Fish"
A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure

By Harry Collingwood
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This book has a firm place in British literature, for it was one of the
very first in the genre of science-fiction.

A German professor, living for some reason in London, takes on some
adventurous and rich Englishmen, and sets off with them in an airship
that is made of a material so light that it can rise vertically into
the air if you pump out some of the air in its ballast tanks. It can
also plunge into the depths of the ocean, because this special material,
aetherium, is so strong that it can withstand water pressure to a great
depth.

In this vehicle they visit the North Pole, having several adventures on
the way, including finding the remains of a Viking ship. They visit a
region in Africa where they depose the existing King and install a King
who is more to their taste. Then they head off for Mount Everest, where
they become the first persons to sit on the summit. Here again they
have more adventures of a perilous kind.

It's a good book, well worth reading, and I commend it to you. NH.
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THE LOG OF THE "FLYING FISH"
A STORY OF AERIAL AND SUBMARINE PERIL AND ADVENTURE

BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD

CHAPTER ONE.

PROFESSOR VON SCHALCKENBERG MAKES A STARTLING SUGGESTION.

The "Migrants'" Club stands on the most delightful site in all London;
and it is, as the few who are intimately acquainted with it know full
well, one of the most cosy and comfortable clubs in the great
metropolis.

It is by no means a _famous_ club; the building itself has a very
simple, unpret