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What if the world beneath your feet holds the strange lands you long to explore?
Baron Trump has a restless mind, a taste for danger and little wish to leave the unknown alone. In Ingersoll Lockwood's children's adventure, the bold young nobleman sets out to explore below the earth. His journey opens a world of peculiar realms, where curiosity draws him onward and strange places invite him to test his cleverness.
The pleasure lies in discovery: odd ideas, hidden worlds and a playful sense of wonder. Lockwood brings a formal, lively style to this tale of a young traveller seeking marvels. For readers drawn to Victorian curiosities, the journey also offers a glimpse of the underground adventures that stirred imaginations in the nineteenth century.
What you’ll discover
- A bold young traveller Follow Baron Trump as his restless curiosity carries him toward the unknown beneath the earth.
- The lure of hidden worlds Explore the idea that beneath familiar ground lie strange places waiting to be discovered.
- Whimsy at every turn Enjoy peculiar realms and odd ideas approached with a light, playful touch.
- A taste of Victorian wonder Discover the appeal of underground travel through an adventure first published in 1893.
- Lively invention and grand settings Spend time in Lockwood's imaginative world, where a bold hero seeks extraordinary experiences.
Who will love it
For readers who enjoy underground worlds, loyal dogs, and odd societies that mirror our own. If you like a boastful narrator with a warm heart, this tale is a lively companion.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A dog asks for adventure
- Bulger sees what his master misses
- Ordinary talk reveals the way
- Thought and friendship open the passage
- Visible truth can expose hidden injustice
- Shared care shapes the silver city
- Fear yields to a practical answer
- Kindness brings a growing burden
- Strange societies reflect familiar beliefs
Who’s who
- Baron Sebastian von TroompThe short, boastful boy explorer who narrates the tale and sets out to find the portals to Don Fum's world within a world.
- BulgerThe baron's dog and foster brother, whose keen nose and loyal heart guide, rescue, and sometimes outwit his master.
- Queen GalaxaRuler of the transparent Mikkamenkies, whose heart is nearly run down and who hides a long-kept secret about her daughter.
- Princess CrystallinaThe true princess, raised as the maid Glow Stone, who longs to be accepted by her people despite a tiny speck in her heart.
- Barrel BrowThe oldest scholar of the blind and deaf Formifolk, who tells their history and gives his sharp views of the upper world.
- King GelidusCool-headed ruler of the Koltykwerps, who fears heat above all and wants his daughter to choose a husband.
- Princess SchneebouleThe cheerful, kind daughter of King Gelidus, who shows the baron a little man frozen in ice and grows fond of him.
- FuffcoojahA small ape-like creature frozen in a block of ice, who is named by the baron and needs warmth, food, and care.
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Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
by Ingersoll Lockwood · 1893
A young baron and his dog Bulger squeeze down a bottomless well into a hidden world of glass people.
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Why would a dog beg his master to leave home? Bulger, the loyal companion of Little Baron Trump, has had enough of village mongrels and kitchen cats who lap up his breakfast.
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- 57,900 words
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- Challenging long sentences, a rich vocabulary
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- 1893by Ingersoll Lockwood
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A restless dog sends the baron travelling
At Castle Trump the baron sits buried in a crumbling manuscript called A World within a World. Its author is the Spaniard Don Fum, a thinker of the fifteenth century. Don Fum argues that the globe is hollow, and that people fled below after terrible upheavals and built a world within a world. The baron reads all day and far into the night.
Meanwhile Bulger is miserable. Half a dozen mongrel dogs bark on the lawn to lure him out for a romp. The next morning he tugs the baron's dressing gown and leads him to the dining room. An old tabby cat and four kittens are lapping up the breakfast from his silver plate.
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Lockwood, Ingersoll. Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/baron-trumps-marvellous-underground-journey.
Lockwood, I. (2026). Baron Trump's marvellous underground journey. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/baron-trumps-marvellous-underground-journey (Original work published 1893)
Lockwood, Ingersoll. Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/baron-trumps-marvellous-underground-journey.
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What is Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey about?
A young baron and his dog Bulger follow an old manuscript into a hollow earth. They meet transparent people, a silent silver city, an ice kingdom, and forgetful folk, and face dangers with courage and wit.
Who is Don Fum in the story?
Don Fum is a fifteenth-century Spanish scholar whose manuscript A World within a World claims the earth is hollow and inhabited. The baron treats his hints as a map and calls him Master of Masters.
Who are the Mikkamenkies and the Formifolk?
The Mikkamenkies are transparent people whose hearts show through and who cannot lie. The Formifolk, also called Soodopsies, live in a silver city and are blind, deaf, and mute, but read and speak by touch.
The author
Ingersoll Lockwood
1841–1918 · American lawyer and novelist
Ingersoll Lockwood (1841–1918) was an American lawyer and writer born in Ossining, New York. He wrote Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger (1890), Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey (1893), and 1900; or, The Last President (1896). He died in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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