TY - BOOK AU - Haggard,H.Rider TI - When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot AV - PR PY - 1998/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Adventure stories N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_World_Shook; Release date is 1998-06-01; Anthony Matonak and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "When the World Shook" by H. Rider Haggard is a novel published in 1919. Three adventurers—Arbuthnot, Bickley, and Bastin—are shipwrecked on a South Sea island where they discover two figures in crystal coffins who have been unconscious for 250,000 years. Upon awakening, the powerful Oro and his daughter Yva reveal their ancient civilization's secrets. As Oro observes the modern world and grows disgusted with humanity, he prepares to reshape civilization through catastrophic destruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1368 ER -