
First published 1913. The date '1917' used in the first paragraph of the novel is fictitious.
Language
en
Duration
~9 hours (525K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2013-03-20
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1876–1959
Packed his adventure stories with ships, submarines, aviation, and the kind of cliffhanger action that kept generations of young readers turning pages. He was astonishingly prolific, producing well over a hundred books and becoming one of the best-known British writers of boys' fiction in the first half of the twentieth century.
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