Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their trans-Atlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat. They are enroute, with uncles and another cousin, to visit their grandfather in England.
Tim rows out to rescue his careless friend Ginger from the rising tide, but their small boat is caught in a storm and dashed upon the rocks before they reach safety.
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.