FANTASTIC JOURNEY TO TREASURE Horror chilled me to the marrow; for never before, I verily believe, had mortal eyes beheld so awful an apparition. Broad over the port bow, at an elevation of some forty degrees above the horizon, I beheld a great white-hot flaming mass, emitting a long trail of brilliant sparks, coming straight for the ship. . . . That's the way it started for Fourth Officer Eric Blackburn -- with a meteor slamming through the engine room of the S.S. Saturn. Sole survivor of this astonishing catastrophe in the South Seas, Eric is picked up by a sailing vessel with a crew in search of treasure. Eric becomes skipper -- but the ship is wrecked on an uncharted island.

Author Biography

William Joseph Cosens Lancaster AKA Harry Collingwwod (1851-1922) was a British civil engineer who specialized in seas and harbors. An author of nautical and piratical fiction. Wrote under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood.