Book One. Imaginatively rendered in this book is a story that appertains to Alice Liddell of Alice in wonderland fame, in which the author of that book features as a character and also the heroine embarks on her whirlwind adventure on her chessboard and beyond.
Book Two. Back in Oxford University, Professor Charles Dodgson starts Alice and her sisters on an imaginative adventure on board an ocean going liner sailing from Shanghai, China, with eventual stopover at Karachi. A rich assortment of rich or genial characters whom they meet form the main interest of this book.