The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs Science Fiction

<p>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.</p><p>Heavily influenced by the events of World War I the story reflects U.S. sentiments at the time of writing. </p>