Late in the 19th century, Walter Bernard, a young American doctor in the budding field of modern psychology, finds himself confronted by a colorful cast of characters, including: Marshall Palmer: sole survivor of an ill-fated Arctic voyage. Johann Kircher: captain of a seagoing vessel unlike any seen before. Richard Cyrus: a cult leader dogged by mad visions. Delia Ordway: Cyrus' consort, fleeing from a dark past. All these figures share a common vision of another world, a world within our own. Their obsessive pursuit of this vision will sweep Bernard into both a far-flung adventure and a personal reckoning with the fine line between science and delusion, sanity and madness.
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