The Lost Continent

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9780060161583
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

The Lost Continent

Author: C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
The Lost Continent, initially published as a serial in 1899, remains one of the enduring classics of the “lost race” genre. In it we follow Deucalion, a warrior-priest on the lost continent of Atlantis, as he tries to battle the influence of an egotistical upstart empress. Featuring magic, intrigue, mythical monsters, and fearsome combat on both land and sea, the story is nothing if not a swashbuckling adventure. The Lost Continent was very influential on pulp fiction of the subsequent decades, and echoes of its style can be found in the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and others. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

The Lost Continent

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596054956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
I could not repress a sigh at the thought of the havoc war had wrought in this part of England, at least. Farther east, nearer London, we should find things very different. There would be the civilization that two centuries must have wrought upon our English cousins as they had upon us. There would be mighty cities, cultivated fields, happy people. There we would be welcomed as long-lost brothers. There would we find a great nation anxious to learn of the world beyond their side of thirty, as I had been anxious to learn of that which lay beyond our side of the dead line. ~ ~ ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. The Lost Continent is one of the rarest and least-known of Burrough's thrilling science-fiction adventure stories. Since its first appearance-in the February 1916 issue of All-Around Magazine, under the title "Beyond Thirty"-it has languished in undeserved obscurity. In the year 2137, global civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-ruined Europe is but a distant memory, practically a legend, to the isolationist United States. But one intrepid American traveler is about to rediscover the Old World, which has become a startling and savage land in its solitude. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That TimeForgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.

Love Songs for a Lost Continent

Author: Anita Felicelli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945233043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
"[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday... a book we will still be reading tomorrow." - Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects Anita Felicelli's debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. From the glittering heat of India to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley, the backwoods of Kentucky to the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar, immigrants, daughters, and lovers explore what it means to lose and to love, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.

The Lost Continent

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674562
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354

The Lost Continent

Author: C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803273320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
A fictionalized account of the last days of the doomed island of Atlantis.

The Lost Continent

Author: Percival Constantine
Publisher: Pulp Corner Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
A mystery older than time! There is a hidden world beneath the one you know, one in which all the stories from mythology are true. Elisa Hill is the latest in a long line of myth hunters, adventurers who travel the world seeking out the truth behind the legend. But the mystery of ancient Lemuria has eluded her and her family for decades. Until now. New evidence has finally given Elisa the opportunity to uncover the secret her parents went to their graves pursuing. But standing in her way is a secret society that wants Lemuria's secrets for a far darker purpose. Their chief operative is a man who knows Elisa better than anyone—her former partner. The tension builds and soon, Elisa will have to make a decision—is her quest worth the risk of these secrets falling into the wrong hands?

The Lost Continent

Author: Cutcliffe Hyne
Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787312725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
A Novel of Atlantis. Contents: the Legatees of Drucalion; My Recall; Back to Atlantis; Phorenice, Goddess; a Wooing; Zaemon's Summons; Destruction of Atlantis; on the Bosom of the Deep.

The Lost Continent of Mu

Author: James Churchward
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN: 9781931882729
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
This classic book on the theory of a lost continent in the Pacific imparts the fascinating travel stories and theories of James Churchward.

The Lost Continent

Author: David Alexander Baker
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1623545145
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This poignant tribute to the beauty of coral reefs sheds light on the destruction of global reef ecosystems and the climate science behind the conservation efforts to save them. Broken into three parts—Discovering Corals, Wonder and Devastation, and Searching for Hope—and told through a series of gripping stories, author and documentarian David Alexander Baker takes readers on a global adventure to the front lines of an unfolding ecological crisis. More than half of the world's coral reefs have been destroyed in the past fifty years due to the climate crisis. The Lost Continent helps readers gain a deeper understanding of coral reefs and why they are vital to the health of our oceans—and the survival of our planet—and highlights the incredible conservation and restoration strides being made around the world. With over 60 breathtaking photographs of coral reefs spanning from Colombia to Australia to the Florida Keys readers will be moved both by the majesty of nature and the urgency to preserve and restore these great cities of the seas.