Perhaps I’ve been reading too many novels by Clive Cussler, but I wanted some real submarine treasure-hunting adventure, only for kids. Ballantyne’s Away in the Wilderness), I was kind of hoping for some fast-paced underwater antics. When I first picked up this book in my search for morally sound old adventure novels (during which I found such gems as R.M. Swift’s bravado and cunning was as much paid for as earned, however, for as a “talented young inventor” with his own accountant and crew of servants, he was a far cry from lashing logs together on the Mighty Mississip. Tom Swift might not be a household name these days, but for generations (including my own) he’d been known as one of the great American boy adventurers, right on par with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. OR The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic
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