A Journey to the Earth's Interior - Or - Have the Poles Really Been Discovered [Facsimile Printing]

New Delhi, India [Aurora, Illinois]: Gyan Books Ltd. [Eugene Smith Company], 2015. Facsimile of the 1909 edition. No date; circa 2015. Red and black textured boards, deep red leather spine wrap and corners with gilt dentell borders, gilt spine titles with decorative bands, fine. Pages fine with red cloth ribbon marker. Colorful marbled endpapers. Bind fine, square. Several of the original illustrations throughout. Attractive facsimile of the scarce first edition. Covers all aspects of the contemporaneous science, exploration, and theories pertaining to a hollow earth w/openings at the poles. Marshall Gardner, a hollow-earth proponent, presents his scientific hypotheses to explain the formation of hollow planets. Much on artic explorers' logs and records, scientific and anecdotal evidence. This theory also incorporates the concept of a central heat and light source, i.e. a form of sun, held in a centered space by equally applied gravitational force emanating from the midpoint of the earth's spherical crust, e.g. if crust is 800 miles thick then gravitation emanates from apprx. 400 mile depth for both exterior and interior of planet. 69 pages. Few pages of adverts at back for Gyan Books. Insured post.. Facsimile Edition.. Half-Leather. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.