The first part is a naturalist’s account of how meadows, roads and towns revert to woodland, how farm animals turn feral, and how the survivors split into petty kingdoms ringed by a great inland lake. The second follows Sir Felix Aquila, a proud and bookish young noble, who builds a canoe to win fortune and the hand of Aurora Thyma.
An 1885 founding text of post-apocalyptic fiction, admired by William Morris and later writers of the genre. Download the free EPUB.