WHAT A RIDE! "You mean, sir, that the earthquake and the volcanic eruption have torn away some great fragment of the world, and we are on it?" "That is what I mean." "We are floating in space, then -- an entirely new world? And that is the old world shining there in the sky?" "That is what has happened, Jack," declared Professor Henderson. Teenagers Jack Darrow and Mark Sampson have been on some thrilling adventures with Professor Henderson, but this beats all! The Professor has just built a fabulous speedy new airship called The Snowbird. He, the lads, Washington White and his irascible Shanghai rooster, take a spin to find a rare plants native only to Alaska. A series of dreadful earthquakes, though, tears a hunk of Alaska off the Earth, spinning it up into the stratosphere, our heroes on it?

Author Biography

Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adventure books. The name is most well-remembered for the Bomba the Jungle Boy and Great Marvel series. Deep Sea (1905-1908)--Later reused as part of Dave Fearless series Great Marvel (1906-1935)--Volumes 1-5 and 8 ghostwritten by Howard R. Garis Speedwell Boys (1913-1915) Dave Dashaway (1913-1915) Dave Fearless (1926-1927) Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926-1937)--many ghostwritten by John William Duffield In addition to Garis and Duffield, some of these books were also written by Leslie McFarlane and W. Bert Foster. Edward Stratemeyer had earlier used the pseudonym "Roy Rockwood" for the book The Wizard of the Sea; or a Trip Under the Ocean, published by the Mershon Company in 1900.