The Lost ContinentEdgar Rice BurroughsOmniClassics · Literature
The Lost Continent
Edgar Rice BurroughsA forbidden crossing carries a future American officer into a Europe transformed by centuries of isolation.
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About the book
The Western Hemisphere has severed contact with the eastern world after devastating war, turning a geographical boundary into a rule that generations have learned not to question. Jefferson Turck's journey beyond that limit confronts him with conditions no longer resembling the inherited picture of European civilization. The adventure combines exploration, danger, and attachment with a reversal of familiar assumptions about which societies possess power and knowledge. Burroughs uses the ruined or transformed Old World to imagine the consequences of isolation and historical change, while retaining racial hierarchies within his own future scenario. First published as Beyond Thirty, this short novel makes the act of crossing a prohibited line an intellectual disturbance as well as a physical risk: the traveller must revise a history whose silence has been mistaken for certainty.
- Isolation
- Historical reversal
- Forbidden exploration
Why read it
For a future adventure whose forbidden geography turns inherited assumptions about civilization into questions requiring direct observation.
Novel originally published as Beyond Thirty · English text