Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Tom Swift, the teenage prodigy whose electrical brain never stops scheming, stumbles upon something in an old magazine that sets his imagination on fire. A lost city hidden in the jungles of Central America, its location marked only by a cryptic map and the promise of ancient treasures beyond imagination. But Tom isn't content to simply read about adventure. He builds, rigs, and engineers his way toward the unknown, confident that his latest invention will carry him where others have failed. The jungle has claimed explorers before. It has never met anyone like Tom Swift. What follows is a rollicking ride through thick canopies and thicker mysteries, where a clever kid from upstate New York confronts the secrets of a civilization that time forgot. Part boy's-own adventure, part celebration of Yankee ingenuity, this is the kind of story that made a generation of readers believe that brains could beat brawn, and that the next great discovery was always just one experiment away.
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“Honduras, as you of course know, is a republic of Central America, and it gets its name from something that happened on the fourth voyage of Columbus. He and his men had had days of weary sailing and had sought in vain for shallow water in which they might come to an anchorage. Finally they reached the point now known as Cape Gracias-a-Dios, and when they let the anchor go, and found that in a short time it came to rest on the floor of the ocean, some one of the sailors”
— Victor Appleton
“This. He has come across some old manuscripts, or ancient document records, referring to this valley, and they state, according to this article he has written for the magazine, that somewhere in the valley is a wonderful city, traces of which have been found twenty to forty feet below the surface, on which great trees are growing, showing that the city was covered hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago.””
— Victor Appleton
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