The Land That Time Forgot

About the book

A manuscript recovered in a bottle introduces an account of naval conflict and an extraordinary voyage during the First World War. Bowen Tyler and his companions become involved in a struggle for control of a submarine before reaching an isolated land inhabited by creatures that appear to belong to distant stages of the past. The discoveries do not erase the suspicion and rivalries brought from the outside world. Burroughs combines the confined tensions of a vessel with the expanding mysteries of an unexplored landscape, making cooperation urgent and difficult. Strange patterns in the region's living things suggest that its secrets extend beyond the presence of prehistoric animals. The adventure follows the effort to secure food, safety, and understanding in a place that repeatedly overturns the travellers' expectations.

• Survival
• Conflict and cooperation
• Discovery

Why read it

For an adventure that carries wartime distrust into a lost world whose mysteries are as important as its immediate dangers.

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