- Appleton, Victor.
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat.
McLean, VA: IndyPublish.com, [1910] 2002. ISBN 1-4043-3567-6.
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As usual, I read the electronic edition of this novel published
in the
Tom Swift and His Pocket
Library
collection at this site on my PalmOS PDA in random moments of
downtime over a couple of months. I've posted an updated electronic
edition which corrects typographical errors I noted whilst reading
the book, the fourth installment in the original Tom Swift saga.
It's delightful to read a book which uses the word “filibuster” in
its original sense: “to take part in a private military action in a
foreign country” but somewhat disconcerting to encounter Brazilians
speaking Spanish! The diving suits which allow full mobility on
the abyssal plain two miles beneath the ocean surface remain as
science-fictional as when this novel was written almost a century
ago.
September 2005 