A Honeymoon in Space

An English adventure novel first published in 1901. On 5 November 1900, in the middle of the Atlantic, a flying ship of metal and glass draws alongside an American liner. Its owner, Lord Redgrave, a wealthy Englishman, built it from an invention by the father of Zaidie Rennick, a young American woman sailing to Europe to marry a man she does not love. He takes her on board, they marry, and their honeymoon carries them to the Moon, Mars, Venus and the giant planets, where a dead world covered in ruins and strange peoples await them. A lively and often funny story that shows how people imagined the solar system before the aeroplane was even invented.