The Lost Continent
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 1994
ISBN/ASIN: 9380028318
Description:
The novel, set in the year 2137, was heavily influenced by the events of World War I. In the future world depicted in the novel, Europe has descended into barbarism while an isolationist and politically united Western Hemisphere remains sheltered from the destruction. The title Beyond Thirty refers to the 30th meridian west that inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere are forbidden to pass.
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