Some may believe Hell lies in the center of the Earth, but not William F. Lyon. With help from the spirit medium M.L. Sherman, he wrote The Hollow Globe; or, The World's Agitator and Reconciler, first published in 1871 (offered is an 1875 second edition). Rather than Hell, Lyon believed there was a beautiful and highly developed world some 30 or 40 miles below the Earth's surface. It could be reached only through a spiral entrance beneath the Polar Sea. Lyon believed that this underworld was the next logical outlet for America's manifest destiny. Item 118. $100.

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