Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guarantee to give you back five times that sum. "I don't know, Alec, I don't know," slowly responded the aged inventor. "I've heard those stories before, and in my experience nothing ever came of them. Buried treasure, and lost vessels filled with gold, are all well and good, but hunting for an opal mine on some little-heard-of island goes them one better." "Then you don't feel like backing me up in this matter, Mr. Swift?"

Tom Swift must construct a cannon large enough to protect the Panama Canal while evading saboteurs.

Tom Swift has enthralled generations of children with his amazing adventures. So return to a simpler time put away your cynicism and dust off your sense of wonder because you're off on a series of grand adventures! Include here are Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon (Or the Longest Shots on Record) Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone (Or the Picture That Saved a Fortune) Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship (Or the Naval Terror of the Seas)

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Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders is the 20th book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".

The young hero seeks treasure and finds death-defying adventures on his submarine.