This “Alternate History” opens in Antarctica in 1919, where a young journalist has attached himself to an aging scientist who, following the theories of an earlier time, thinks he can rejuvenate his career by discovering a route to the subterranean world beneath the Earth’s crust. As Government funding dries up other, less scrupulous financiers insinuate themselves. The journalist, always a skeptic, chases two stories, his reports home straddling the line between fiction and non fiction. Along for the ride are the scientist’s seventeen year old daughter, her suffragette governess-cum-lady’s companion, and two highly suspicious financiers’ agents.