Land Time Forgot - Softcover

Rice Burroughs, Edgar

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ISBN 10: 0441470262 ISBN 13: 9780441470266

Publisher: Ace, 1982

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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 . . .

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Review

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was a prodigiously productive writer of pulp fictions--literary entertainments, that is, published in inexpensive, easily obtained periodicals. His style was simple and instantly accessible, his stories riveting if often implausible tales of adventure, and of good overcoming evil. Burroughs wasn't much of an artist. But, as Mike Resnick writes in his introduction to this commemorative edition of Burroughs's immensely popular trilogy The Land That Time Forgot, first published in 1924, almost every book Burroughs wrote remains in print, and countless readers turn to his Mars and Tarzan novels every day.

In Land, Burroughs concocts a fabulous microworld, located somewhere in the South Pacific, called Caspak. On this mountainous island live winged, humanlike creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, "wild ape-men," and monstrous reptiles; they terrorize each other, to say nothing of the mixed crew of World War I-era adventurers who inadvertently land on a Caspakian beach and fight their way across the island, dining on Plesiosaurus steaks and having a grand old time in the company of a jungle princess. The story streaks onward like a bullet toward its surprise ending, and it's pure fun all the way. --Gregory McNamee

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This book is a standard print version using a minimum of 10 point type in a 6 by 9 inch size and library bound. As with all Quiet Vision print books, it use a high grade, acid free paper for long life.

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