The Lost Continent

The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs follows Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, a naval officer of the Pan-American Federation, as he ventures beyond the limits his civilization maintains. The setting is a far-future world in which the Eastern Hemisphere has been cut off from the West for over 200 years after a devastating war, leaving Europe isolated, abandoned, and largely forgotten. When Turck’s ship, the Coldwater, begins to fail, he crosses into the forbidden territory and, after a dangerous experience at sea, he and a small group wash ashore. In this unknown land, they face a wilderness of hostile conditions, exotic beasts, and primitive tribes, discovering a Europe whose people and customs have declined into brutality and ignorance.