The Lost Continent Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs The Lost Continent. For two hundred years, a civilized America had cut off all contact with the war-ruined Eastern Hemisphere until such places as Europe and Great Britain had become mere legends. Then Jefferson Turck dared take his US aero-sub across the 30th longitude west on the misson of a new Columbus -- to rediscover England. — Edgar Rice... more » Burroughs' novel of the future is one of his rarest and most exciting science-fiction novels -- a thrilling adventure in the Lost Continent which has become the abode of wild beasts, savage tribes and barbarian queens.« less