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.
