In this beautifully illustrated book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here, what they look like, what their houses are like, what they do, along with the landscape of Earth and the many creatures who share the planet--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.

"A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, this science fiction tales delves into the depths of the Earth, and by so doing, reveals the staggeringly long history of our planet"--Cover, P. [4].