
audiobook
PHARAOH'S BROKER
BY ELLSWORTH DOUGLASS
INTRODUCTION - Elusive Truth
BOOK I - Secrets of Space
CHAPTER I - Dr. Hermann Anderwelt
CHAPTER II - The Gravity Projectile
CHAPTER III - Structure of the Projectile
CHAPTER IV - What is on Mars?
CHAPTER V - Final Preparations
CHAPTER VI - Farewell to Earth
A booming wheat broker vanishes from Chicago’s Board of Trade, leaving behind a baffling steel rocket half‑buried in the sands of Lake Michigan and a hastily scrawled note that reads “Farewell to Earth forever.” Newspapers spin wild theories—suicide, insurance fraud, a secret flight—while friends cling to hope that the energetic twenty‑seven‑year‑old is still alive. When investigators finally pry open the mysterious craft, they discover a notebook filled with a man’s own hand, chronicling an extraordinary departure from the familiar world.
In his manuscript, the broker describes the unsettling launch, the pull of an unseen force, and his sudden arrival on a strange, red‑lit planet. He writes of towering “terror birds,” iron‑clad strangers from a blue star, and a hidden valley where light behaves like water. The narrative blends scientific speculation with vivid adventure, inviting listeners to explore the early steps of a journey that blurs the line between daring imagination and unknown reality.
Full title
Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (389K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, George Snoga, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2008-05-02
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1863–1933
Best known for the 1899 speculative novel Pharaoh's Broker, this American writer published under the name Ellsworth Douglass while leading a far more restless life in business and travel. The result is an unusual literary profile: a turn-of-the-century entrepreneur whose fiction carries the energy of adventure and early science fiction.
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