Hanno, or the Future of Exploration

Description

This is the only the second ever republication 

of the first book by the Scottish writer James 

Leslie Mitchell (better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon). 

Commissioned for a popular series in 

futurological writing, Hanno, or the Future 

of Exploration looks to the decades ahead 

from the vantage point of 1928. Largely 

ignored despite its author’s later fame, the 

extended essay makes several startlingly 

accurate and some bizarrely inaccurate 

predictions about the coming exploration 

of land, ocean, the inner Earth and outer space.

The text is here supported for the first time by a 

scholarly introduction, explanatory notes and 

commentary which help the reader rediscover 

a forgotten yet still highly readable work of a 

major modernist author.