The Addenda is as original as the book itself, consisting, as it does,
of a list of names, some of whom are not subscribers, but to whom the
author is deeply obliged, or whom he regards as very dear friends, and
those of a few whom he personally admires.... If each of them has a copy
of Etidorhpa, or the End of the Earth, he possesses a book which is not
like any other book in the world.
[Sidenote: Cleveland Leader.]
It relates to a journey made by the old man under the guidance of a
peculiar being into the interior of the earth. The incidents of this
journey overshadow any thing that Verne ever wrote in his palmiest days.
But perhaps the most singular part of it is that they are all based on
scientific grounds. Dr. Lloyd, the author of the volume, is one of the
deepest students, and is well known as a profound writer on subjects
pertaining to his profession, as well as one who has taken much pains in
studying the occult sciences.... The book is a very pleasant one to
read, a little redundant at times, but full of information.... Readers
who succeed in securing it will be very lucky indeed.
TRANSCRIBER NOTES:
Punctuation corrected without note.
page 47: no illustration is found in the original book for
this reference.
page 228: "siezed" changed to "seized" (The guide seized me by the
hand).
page 284: "begun" changed to "began" (began a narcotic
hallucination).
page 338: "comformably" changed to "conformably" (that lies
conformably with the external crust).
page 385: "wierd" changed to "weird" (and weird, artistic pictures).
End of Project Gutenberg's Etidorhpa or the End of Earth., by John Uri Lloyd
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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