The Lost Continent

The Lost Continent originally titled Beyond Thirty is a 1916 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs . 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 Americas 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.