John Ames Mitchell 51 min read

Centuries hence, an expedition of Persians explores the ruins of a vanished America, piecing together the folly of a dead civilization from its crumbling remains.

This Esperanto edition presents John Ames Mitchell's 1889 'The Last American,' a satirical post-apocalyptic vision of the United States in ruins. Sharp, ironic, illustrated. Read it for a witty nineteenth-century prophecy of America's fall, seen through the eyes of future foreign explorers.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

51 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).