Five days out from Celebes, the Dutch trader Dirk Waaijen spots an odd cask with a mast and streamer bobbing in the sea, and his crew haul it aboard hoping for a prize. What it holds instead opens a strange narrative of discovery, carried to a lonely rocky coast where thousands of pigeons nest and the search for a mysterious inhabitant begins.
A forgotten American scientific romance from 1899, for collectors of early speculative fiction. Download the free EPUB.