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Etidorhpa is an early science fiction novel depicting a man's descent into the bowels of the Earth at the instigation of a mysterious secret society - it is presented here complete with the original illustrations. Llewyllyn Drury is visited by a mysterious old man whose defining physical feature is his large, protruding forehead. The man offers to tell his story, promising that his life and knowledge is worth writing down. Being as the man displays certain enthralling and supernatural powers, Drury assents to the task - Etidorhpa is this story, interspersed with pauses wherein Drury questions his strange houseguest. John Uri Lloyd was a popular author of mystery and science fiction books. His profession however was pharmacology, with his specialism being herbal medicines and ethnobotanicals. The presence of giant mushrooms in one portion of the story, plus the various fantastical elements described, have led some readers to speculate that the author's knowledge of mind-altering substances influenced Etidorhpa's plotting. Some sixty-five illustrations populate the pages of this book. They depict the stages of the journey, plus some of the scientific and metaphysical concepts explored.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).
Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable by John Uri Lloyd Etidorhpa, or the End of the Earth: The Strange Story of a Mysterious Being and the Tale of an Extraordinary Journey is the title of a science allegory or science fiction novel by John Uri Lloyd, a Cincinnati, Ohio drugmaker and drugmaker. Etidorhpa was published in 1895. The word "Etidorhpa" is the reverse spelling of the name "Aphrodite". The first editions of Etidorhpa were distributed privately; Subsequent editions of the book feature numerous fantastic illustrations by John Augustus Knapp. Eventually a popular success, the book went through eighteen editions and was translated into seven languages. Etidorhpa literary clubs were founded in the United States and some parents named their young daughters Etidorhpa.
