Fiction · 1898
The Lost City
Professor Phaeton Featherwit, a scientist of great confidence and moderate judgement, has built a flying machine, and takes his two nephews up in it to observe a tornado from the inside. They come down a long way from anywhere, in a hidden valley behind the mountains, where a city of Aztecs has gone on existing since the conquest — sun-worship, human sacrifice and all — without ever learning that the outside world exists. The Aztecs take the air-ship for a sign, and the three of them have to decide what to be.
Joseph E. Badger, Jr. wrote a great many dime novels and boys' adventure stories, and published The Lost City in 1898. It belongs to the lost-race genre that ran from Haggard's She through a hundred American imitations, and it is a clear, uncomplicated example of the form.
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Contents
- Chapter I — Nature in Travail
- Chapter II — Professor Featherwit Taking Notes
- Chapter III — Riding the Tornado
- Chapter IV — The Professor’s Little Experiment
- Chapter V — The Professor’s Unknown Land
- Chapter VI — A Brace of Unwelcome Visitors
- Chapter VII — The Professor’s Great Anticipations
- Chapter VIII — A Duel to the Death
- Chapter IX — Grappling a Queer Fish
- Chapter X — Rescued and Rescuers
- Chapter XI — Another Surprise for the Professor
- Chapter XII — The Story of a Broken Life
- Chapter XIII — The Lost City of the Aztecs
- Chapter XIV — A Marvellous Vision
- Chapter XV — Astounding, Yet True
- Chapter XVI — Can It Be True?
- Chapter XVII — An Enigma for the Brothers
- Chapter XVIII — Something Like a White Elephant
- Chapter XIX — The Children of the Sun God
- Chapter XX — The Professor and the Aztec
- Chapter XXI — Discussing Ways and Means
- Chapter XXII — A Daring Undertaking
- Chapter XXIII — A Flight Underground
- Chapter XXIV — The Sun Children’s Peril
- Chapter XXV — Waldo Goes Fishing
- Chapter XXVI — Down Among the Dead
- Chapter XXVII — Penetrating Grim Secrets
- Chapter XXVIII — Brought Before the Gods
- Chapter XXIX — Beneath the Sacrificial Stone
- Chapter XXX — Against Overwhelming Odds
- Chapter XXXI — Defending the Sun Children
- Chapter XXXII — Adieu to the Lost City
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