The Land That Time Forgot
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Land That Time Forgot is a 1918 adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan. It opens with a narrator finding a manuscript in a bottle, the story of Bowen Tyler, an American whose ship is torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I. After seizing the submarine, Tyler and the survivors drift to Caprona, a lost island where dinosaurs and prehistoric peoples still live. It is the first of Burroughs's Caspak trilogy and was adapted as a 1975 film starring Doug McClure.
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- Stephen King: “one of the greatest things is that I think that The Land That Time Forgot, the story starts with a narrator who finds a manuscript on the beach.”