Peter Wilkins, a Cornishman, is wrecked on a lonely shore far in the southern seas, where he lives Crusoe-fashion until a woman with wings falls near his hut. Through Youwarkee he comes to the hidden country of the flying glums and gawrys, its king, its politics and its wars.
An eighteenth-century fantasy admired by Coleridge, Lamb and Scott, complete in both volumes. Download the free EPUB.