Miller, Wiley

Away from his ordinary life in 1899 Maine, Basil Pepperell travels to forbidden Monkey Island--a floating scientific laboratory where evil Dr. Von Rottweil plans to use an advanced society of monkeys to further his plan of "Peace Through World Domination.".

Twelve-year-old Basil meets an eccentric professor with a flying boat and sets off on a journey into the clouds, where they find a floating city filled with otherworldly inventions and ideas.