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The Finding of the Copper Cylinder
15:39
Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean
17:02
A World of Fire and Desolation
17:31
The Sight of Human Beings
22:43
The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains
16:22
The New World
23:34
Scientific Theories and Scepticism
24:46
The Cave-Dwellers
17:18
The Cavern of the Dead
17:38
The Sacred Hunt
15:17
The Swamp Monster
18:11
The Baleful Sacrifice
13:32
The Awful "Mista Kosek"
16:44
I Learn My Doom
14:53
The Kohen is Inexorable
16:54
The Kosekin
16:41
Belief and Unbelief
26:46
A Voyage Over the Pole
19:13
The Wonders of the "Amir"
20:07
The Dark Maiden Layelah
16:45
The Flying Monster
19:41
Escape
18:45
The Island of Fire
19:14
Recapture
23:37
Falling, like Icarus, into the Sea
13:09
Grimm's Law Again
16:11
Oxenden Preaches a Sermon
11:20
In Prison
18:04
The Ceremony of Separation
17:34
The Day of Sacrifice
19:00
Conclusion
11:54

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Adam More, a British sailor swept past the Antarctic ice, washes into a warm volcanic land where prehistoric beasts still roam and a people called the Kosekin rule. Their society flips every Victorian assumption: poverty is honored, wealth is a burden to give away, darkness is prized over light, and death is the highest reward a person can seek. James De Mille frames the story as a manuscript found floating in a copper cylinder, read aloud by yachtsmen who bicker over whether any of it is true. The result is part lost-world adventure, part sharp satire of greed, empire, and the values his readers took for granted. Published in 1888, after the author's death, it stands as a landmark of early Canadian speculative fiction. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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James De Mille

James De Mille (1833-1880) was a Canadian novelist and professor of classics and history at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Prolific and popular in his day, he wrote adventure serials, boys' fiction, and satire, though he is best remembered for this fantasy, published only after he died.

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