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Title: Pharaoh's Broker
Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner

Author: Ellsworth Douglass

Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25295]

Language: English

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PHARAOH'S BROKER

BEING THE VERY REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES
IN ANOTHER WORLD OF
ISIDOR WERNER

(WRITTEN BY HIMSELF)

EDITED, ARRANGED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY ELLSWORTH DOUGLASS

[Device]

LONDON
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET W.C.
1899

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Obsolete spellings have been retained. The oe ligature is
represented by [oe].

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION: ELUSIVE TRUTH 7

BOOK I. SECRETS OF SPACE

CHAPTER
I. DR. HERMANN ANDERWELT 19
II. THE GRAVITY PROJECTILE 27
III. STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECTILE 37
IV. WHAT IS ON MARS? 48
V. FINAL PREPARATIONS 57
VI. FAREWELL TO EARTH 67
VII. THE TERRORS OF LIGHT 81
VIII. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 91
IX. TRICKS OF REFRACTION 99
X. THE TWILIGHT OF SPACE 108
XI. TELLING THE TIME BY GEOGRAPHY 117
XII. SPACE FEVER 126
XIII. THE MYSTERY OF A MINUS WEIGHT 141

BOOK II. OTHER WORLD LIFE

I. WHY MARS GIVES A RED LIGHT 157
II. THE TERROR BIRDS 170
III. TWO OF US AGAINST THE ARMIE