Homerus Junior Bannington is a rich eccentric who wants to follow the unexplored course of the Tallapoosa River and reach Lake Cherokee. Bannington wants to realize a new “Odyssey”, which he will then narrate in verses. In fact, the trip on the ship named “Athena” turns out to be rife with difficulties: carnivorous plants, monstrous intelligent monkeys, mysterious rock pinnacles that seem endowed with their own will…
