Ten years after the Aberfoyle coal mines near Stirling were abandoned, the engineer James Starr receives a secret summons from the old overman Simon Ford, who believes a new seam lies under the exhausted pit. Their discovery of a huge underground cavern leads to a buried town, strange lights, a mysterious enemy and Nell, a girl who has never seen the sun.
Verne’s Scottish adventure of mining and subterranean wonder, also known as The Black Indies. Download the free EPUB.