When the World Shook / Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
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If representatives of an advanced civilization were to visit our planet today, would they be impressed or dismayed by the way we live?When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years!One of the awakened sleepers, the haughty Lord Oro, is the last of the Sons of Wisdom, a superior race who'd relied on their advanced technology to subjugate the planet's lesser peoples. The other Atlantean is Oro's daughter, Yva, heiress ...
Chapters (32)
- When the World Shook
- Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
- DEDICATION
- WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK
- CHAPTER I. Arbuthnot Describes Himself
- CHAPTER II. Bastin and Bickley
- CHAPTER III. Natalie
- CHAPTER IV. Death and Departure
- CHAPTER V. The Cyclone
- CHAPTER VI. Land
- CHAPTER VII. The Orofenans
- CHAPTER VIII. Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown
- CHAPTER IX. The Island in the Lake
- CHAPTER X. The Dwellers in the Tomb
- CHAPTER XI. Resurrection
- CHAPTER XII. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!
- CHAPTER XIII. Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues
- CHAPTER XIV. The Under-world
- CHAPTER XV. Oro in His House
- CHAPTER XVI. Visions of the Past
- CHAPTER XVII. Yva Explains
- CHAPTER XVIII. The Accident
- CHAPTER XIX. The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley
- CHAPTER XX. Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night
- CHAPTER XXI. Love’s Eternal Altar
- CHAPTER XXII. The Command
- CHAPTER XXIII. In the Temple of Fate
- CHAPTER XXIV. The Chariot of the Pit
- CHAPTER XXV. Sacrifice
- CHAPTER XXVI. Tommy
- CHAPTER XXVII. Bastin Discovers a Resemblance
- NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.
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