When the world shook
being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
by H. Rider Haggard
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Depicts the adventure of three Englishmen who uncover a pair of 250,000 year old super-humans in suspended animation. The super-humans, awakened, view Europe in the midst of the First World War and decide that human civilization must be destroyed.
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When the world shook: being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
1996, Cassell
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0665779135 9780665779138
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Includes author's list.
Novel.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by McGill University, McLennan Library, Montreal. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1996.
viii, 347 p., [2] leaves of plates ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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"I suppose that I, Humphrey Arbuthnot, should begin this history in which Destiny has caused me to play so prominent a part, with some short account of myself and of my circumstances."
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