The mummy's face was that of a man in the prime of life -- his features stamped with royal dignity, even in death. "Ah, what a thing it would be for us if his Inca Highness were really only asleep!" Professor Lamson, authority on South American antiquity, says these words above the mummified man -- never suspecting he would soon undertake a strange adventure . . . journeying alongside a reanimated prince in quest of his princess, Golden Star -- who breathed her last three centuries before!

Author Biography

George Griffith (1857-1906), full name George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine and Pearson's Weekly before being published as novels. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, though he failed to find similar acclaim in the United States, in part due to his utopian socialist views. A journalist, rather than scientist, by background, what his stories lack in scientific rigour and literary grace they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution. "To-night that spark was to be shaken from the torch of Revolution, and to-morrow the first of the mines would explode...the armies of Europe would fight their way through the greatest war that the world had ever seen." - from Griffith's most famous novel The Angel of the Revolution.