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Book Description: Canaveral Press, 1962. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth boards with blue type to front and spine, slight edgewear to boards. 318 pgs. DJ is bright purple with black, clean, unclipped with original price of $2.75, very light edgewear to corners, top and bottom. No rips or tears, protected with brodart. Beautiful pen and ink illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. Zeuschner 254

The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of the first part by A. C. McClurg in June 1924. Beginning with the Ace Books editions of the 1960s, the three segments have usually been issued as separate short novels.

Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island (1874) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis.

The Land that Time Forgot - The novel is set in World War I and opens with a framing story in which a manuscript relating the main story is recovered from a thermos off the coast of Greenland. It purports to be the narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger with his Airedale Terrier Nobs on a ship sunk in the English Channel by a German U-boat, U-33, in 1916. He is rescued by a British tugboat with another survivor, Lys La Rue. The tug is also sunk, but its crew manages to capture the submarine when it surfaces. Unfortunately, all other British craft continue to regard the sub as an enemy, and they are unable to bring it to port. Sabotage to the navigation equipment sends the U-33 astray into the South Atlantic. The imprisoned German crew retakes the sub and begins a raiding cruise, only to be overcome again by the British. A saboteur continues to guide the sub off course, and by the time he is found out it is in Antarctic waters.

It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that it happened - the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that all that I have passed through - all those weird and terrifying experiences - should have been encompassed within so short a span as three brief months. Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time - things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so long dead that even in the lowest Cambrian stratum no trace of it remains. Fused with the melting inner crust, it has passed forever beyond the ken of man other than in that lost pocket of the earth whither fate has borne me and where my doom is sealed. I am here and here must remain.

When adventurer Bowen Tyler was taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreamed that his voyage would end in a land where time itself was prisoner. But in the uncharted seas at the bottom of the world Tyler and the crew of the U-33 discovered the mysterious forgotten continent of Caspak, where the savage denizens of a thousand lost ages roamed vast primeval jungles.Surrounded by dinosaurs and Bronze Age warriors, saber-toothed tigers and cunning beast-men, Bowen Tyler began to unravel the incredible secret of Caspak -- even as he battled to save the life of the woman he loved . . .

Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the few authors who have truly brought a significant contribution to the pulp genre early on, and haven't stopped throughout their careers. Books like Tarzan of the Apes and Princess of Mars became practically embedded into the psyche of readers throughout the early 20th century and for many of the following decades as well.Burroughs' mesmerizing style and impressive writing skill can be seen in their full beauty and intricacy in The Land That Time Forgot. Although this book doesn't introduce us to Tarzan, space travel or unusual and fascinating alien races, it is a unique read in and of itself, painting a remarkable picture of the prehistoric world, and building an engaging plot that continues to captivate readers even today.The story is about a group of men alongside their captives, who try to evade their enemies by means of a submarine. However, in their haste, they end up in a strange land that defies any scientific explanation or historical mention. They are greeted by large sea creatures and strange people with their primitive cultures, and after seeing the wild, untamed land that shows no sign of civilization, they begin wondering if they could even survive here.The author's distinctive, dynamic and well-organized writing style is present throughout this exciting and fast-paced book, bringing Burroughs fans into familiar territory. Even those who aren't used to Burroughs' unexpected plot twists and frequent changes of pace can still relate to the story, and adapt to the narrative with relative ease.Whether you're a fierce E.R. Burroughs fan, and want this book for your collection, or you've just stumbled upon the Land That Time Forgot by accident, you'll find from reading even just the first few pages, that you have in your hands a true gem of early 20th century pulp fiction.

Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island (1874) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.

The Land That Time Forgot is the first novel of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak Trilogy. The book starts out as a war time sea adventure but eventually turns into a lost world story. Burrough's lost world is different from previous lost world books from other authors in that he describes a unique biological system. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author who is considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Burroughs was a prolific writer in many genres and he is most famous for creating extremely popular fictional characters such as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Burroughs also wrote other widely read series of books such as the Caspak Trilogy and the Pellucidar Series.