The Lost Continent

by Edgar Rice Burroughs, United Holdings Group (Created by)

Overview

The Lost Continent is an adventure classic written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and first published in 1916. The year is 2137, two hundred years ago, in our time, more or less, Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. The Americans managed to retain their civilization, but only by engaging by the most extreme form or isolationism imaginable for two centuries, now, no American has ventured east of the thirtieth parallel. "East for the East" the slogan went, "The West for the West!" Until a terrible storm at sea forced American lieutenant Jefferson Turck to disobey the law, seeking safe harbor in England where he found that two centuries of isolation have desolated the land. The damaged ship found a Europe that is no longer an enemy a ruined land that is utterly unable to be an enemy or a friend.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012297716
Publisher:	United Holdings Group
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	216 KB

About the Author

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) had various jobs before getting his first fiction published at the age of 37. He established himself with wildly imaginative, swashbuckling romances about Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars and other heroes, all at large in exotic environments of perpetual adventure. Tarzan was particularly successful, appearing in silent film as early as 1918 and making the author famous. Burroughs wrote science fiction, westerns and historical adventure, all charged with his propulsive prose and often startling inventiveness. Although he claimed he sought only to provide entertainment, his work has been credited as inspirational by many authors and scientists.