Project Gutenberg 2025-06-04 Public domain in the USA. 135 Collins, Gilbert 1890 1960 Collins, Gilbert Henry 23017119 The valley of eyes unseen $aLondon :$bDuckworth & Co., $c1923. Tim Lindell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net The valley of eyes unseen by Gilbert Collins is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a lost-world adventure framed as a manuscript within a narrative, following Hugh Jevons, the scholar-adventurer Ronald Mirlees, and the commanding Saunders Philipson as they’re drawn into a perilous quest through China and toward Tibet. Secret societies, coded monastic lore, and hints of a hidden valley inhabited by a mysterious “ghost-faced” people and a river of diamonds set the tone. The beginning of the story has Jevons in Peking learning of Mirlees’s sudden, inexplicable death in Shanghai, then receiving a sealed box of uncut diamonds and Mirlees’s warning manuscript. Switching to Mirlees’s own account, we meet him in Shanghai, where he intervenes in an opium den assault and rescues a disguised Saunders Philipson; a brutal fight and a night-time launch chase down the Whangpu and into the Yangtze follow as they flee a ruthless secret society linked to a Tibetan monastery. In Nanking, Philipson reveals a plan to find a hidden valley beyond the Tibetan ranges, guided by a cryptic inscription carved by a dying lama that speaks of “devils of ghostly face” and a “river of white gems,” and he invites Mirlees to join him. The section closes with the stakes rising further as Philipson realizes part of his maps were left behind, raising the question of a risky return to Shanghai. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20190223024753collins 1923 GB Reading ease score: 76.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Adventure stories China -- Fiction Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Fiction PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 526456 2025-07-30T07:11:52.622612 text/html 501607 2025-06-04T11:19:26 text/html 363098 2025-07-30T07:11:58.449551 application/epub+zip 362133 2025-07-30T07:11:53.458631 application/epub+zip 297205 2025-07-30T07:11:53.031536 application/epub+zip 441327 2025-07-30T07:12:02.781496 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416321 2025-07-30T07:11:57.929591 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 507622 2025-07-30T07:11:51.936634 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 487816 2025-06-04T11:19:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14212 2025-07-30T07:12:02.938495 application/rdf+xml 6251 2025-07-30T07:11:53.187537 image/jpeg 1572 2025-07-30T07:11:53.108592 image/jpeg 303339 2025-07-30T07:11:52.667604 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog