Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 hr 49 min read

On June 3, 1916, a torpedoed liner's survivors, adrift in the Pacific, seize a German U-boat, and are carried at last to Caprona, a lost land of dinosaurs and cave-men behind unscalable cliffs.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel is a rousing lost-world adventure, first of the Caspak trilogy. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously imaginative. Read it for classic ERB, castaways in a hidden prehistoric world where evolution runs strange, amid dinosaurs, ape-men, and one of his most inventive premises.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 49 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).