Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon

Published 2011 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books

Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon. Copyright © 2011 by Mark Hodder. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hodder, Mark, 1962–

Expedition to the mountains of the moon / by Mark Hodder.

p. cm.

ISBN 978–1–61614–535–4 (pbk.)

ISBN 978–1–61614–536–1 (ebook)

1. Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821–1890—Fiction. 2. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909—Fiction. 3. Time travel—Fiction. 4. Africa, Central—Discovery and exploration—Fiction. 5. Great Britain—History—19th century—Fiction. 6. Steampunk fiction. I≥ Title. II. Title: Burton & Swinburne in expedition to the Mountains of the Moon. III. Title: Burton and Swinburne in expedition to the Mountains of the Moon.

PR6108.O28E94 2012

823'.92—dc23

2011037544

Printed in the United States of America