San Antonio College Library

From the Publisher: The bizarre idea that the Earth's interior is hollow and, perhaps, even populated has been put to effective literary use by writers ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne to Rudy Rucker and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This notion had respectability as a scientific hypothesis until the early 1800s, and the theory that the Earth "is hollow and inhabitable within" continues to find believers as an alternative description of the earth...