The Perilous

Descent

Into a Strange Lost World

Illustrated By Janet Duchesne

Reading level: Ages 9-12

Copyright: ©  Text copyright Bruce Carter 1952  & 1964

Published: 1977

Binding: Softcover with pictorial cover art by Trevor Stubley

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First published in 1952 but re-issued in 1958 by Puffin with illustrations by Janet Duchesne. This ‘as new’ softcover is UNread. This unopened softcover has 178 pages. NO discernible blemishes  ~  just expected age-toning ~ a  COLLECTIBLE  copy.

This is a sensational, excitiing children’s book

Synopsis

Two fighter pilots are shot down and parachute into an underground world, complete with lost races and adventures galore

Reviews……

A memory of this book has just popped into my head, as they do. I remember reading it when I was about 10, so it's pre-1990 - but I think it may have been published earlier than that, perhaps in the 1940s or 1950s. The plot concerns two British RAF pilots in (I think) World War II. They bail out of their aircraft and land on a small sandbank in the middle of the sea - the twist being that the sandbank has a large hole in the middle, which they can't get out of. The hole has a kind of shelf in about 20 feet down (on which they've landed), but goes down much further. After much deliberation about how they're going to get out, they decide to use their open parachutes to go further down the hole. They find a Jules Verne-style "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" world down there. Unfortunately, I can't remember any details of what they did find.

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