Published in 1916, The Lost Continent is a science fiction adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs set in a future world where America has been cut off from Europe for centuries by strict maritime laws. When a naval officer crosses the forbidden zone, he discovers a Europe returned to barbarism, where lions prowl London’s ruins and tribal warfare rages across the continent.
An inventive role-reversal on the lost-world genre, the novel reflects the anxieties of the early twentieth century in characteristically entertaining Burroughs fashion. Download the free public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.