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Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle: Or Daring Adventures on Elephant Island

Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle: Or Daring Adventures on Elephant Island

ByVictor Appleton

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Tom Swift is the central character in five series of books, first appearing in 1910, totaling more than 100 volumes, of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land is a young adult novel written by Victor Appleton. It is Volume 10 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. While Tom Swift is working on his latest new invention, the electric rifle, he meets an African safari master whose stories of elephant hunting sends the group off to deepest, darkest Africa. Hunting for ivory is the least of their worries, as they find out some old friends are being held hostage by the fearsome tribes of the red pygmies. Swift builds two major inventions in this volume. The first is a replacement airship, known as The Black Hawk. This new airship is to replace The Red Cloud.

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Publication Date
Aug 2, 2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781300045274
Category
Fiction
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Victor Appleton

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EPUB

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