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Tom Swift and the castaways of Earthquake Island: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift and the castaways of Earthquake Island Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Tom helps a fellow inventor with his poorly designed airplane, while testing the plane; Tom and family are marooned on a remote island that is smack dab in the center of a predicted earthquake. Join Tom, his girl friend and their family, & noted disaster-predicting expert Parker as they discover a way off Earthquake Island! Tom Swift, the insp... more »irational boyhood hero of Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, is an all-American young inventor in his teens. These fantastic and future-predicting stories are VERY alive today. Swift was modeled after the entrepreneurial and inventive geniuses Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, who both changed our world more than any other two people. Like Arthur C. Clarke, Swift invented or predicted many modern discoveries including the Taser, camcorder, video-phone, electric car, and several others.« less