The Smoky God: A Voyage to the Inner World

by Willis George Emerson

Book Overview

2018 Reprint of 1908 Edition. Illustrated Edition. THE SMOKY GOD is an Edwardian era "hollow earth" fantasy novel, presented as a true story. The narrator, Olaf Jansen, voyages through a polar opening in 1829 and spends 2 years in a strange underground world, believed to be the original Garden of Eden. This inner Earth is lit by its own sun, and here underground civilization has diverged from the ways of the surface. Here are giants, monsters,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684222796
• ISBN13: 9781684222797
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This book use to be almost 200 pages.

For those who don’t know this book was much longer than this. I thought I ordered a 1986. Version. They sent a 50 page new version. Disappointing!

Oldie, Classic

This little book was written originally in about the 1920's and has was thought to be non-fiction. Who knows? An exciting adventure, scarcely 80 pages. If you have any interest in the hollow earth theory, you should have this book in your collection. Fiction or non-fiction? The reader will have to decide.

The discovery of The Hollow Earth by Olaf Jansen and his father is truly amazing.

The story is most fascinating. I read it to my husband and we found it to be completely believable. We were disappointed in the ending however and we wonder how our lives might be different if Mr. Jansen had been believed and more discoveries were made by other explorers to collabor-ate his story. How sad that we are so set in our ways, that we fear to change. I was hoping that he and his father might truly visit the hollow earth again, as they said they would, but not so. I would like to recommend all books by Dianne Robbins regarding the hollow earth. You will enjoy them too.

Very interesting concept

This book was given to me by a friend I highly respect. When he gave me a summary of the book, I thought it was a little far fetched. However, as I began to read this first-hand account, my opinion started to change.Overall the book was an excellent read. Being that it was written in the mid 1850's, the language was a bit different from what we use today. Also, the author spends too much time, in my opinion, describing his journey into the earth. It would have been much better if he devoted more chapters to his experience while being inside for 2 years.