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The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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). The Land That Time Forgot is set in World War I and is the narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger on a ship sunk in the English Channel by the U-33, a German U-boat, 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. Eventually, the survivors make their way to Caprona, a large island ringed by cliffs. The survivors go ashore where they encounter various primitive peoples as well as dinosaurs and other prehistoric life. The native people call the land Caspak. The story is continued in The People That Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss. Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 -- March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs wrote popular science fiction stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets, notably Barsoom, Burroughs' fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus, as well as lost islands, and the interior of the earth in his Pellucidar stories. He also wrote westerns and historical romances.
The Caspak trilogy
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