The Lost Continent, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost Continent, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Lost Continent

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: Paul Silver

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2026


Synopsis

The year is 2137. For two centuries, the Western Hemisphere has lived in complete isolation—protected by a law forbidding anyone from crossing the thirtieth meridian.

Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, an officer in the navy of the Pan-American Federation, has spent his life believing that Europe no longer matters. After generations of war, disease, and political collapse, the Eastern Hemisphere has been abandoned to history.

Then a mechanical failure sends Turck’s aero-submarine across the forbidden boundary.

Stranded far beyond the limits of the civilized world, Turck and his companions discover that Europe has not vanished. It has descended into a brutal wilderness where the ruins of once-great cities stand beside primitive kingdoms, dangerous beasts, and warring factions struggling for control.

As Turck journeys deeper into the lost continent, he encounters captivity, rebellion, unexpected allies, and Victory—a courageous young woman whose identity may connect her to Europe’s forgotten past. To survive and find a way home, he must navigate a world shaped by centuries of violence while questioning the isolationist beliefs he once accepted without doubt.

Originally published as *Beyond Thirty*, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s *The Lost Continent* combines post-apocalyptic science fiction, lost-world adventure, futuristic technology, romance, and pulp-era action in a startling vision of civilization after global war.

This historical work reflects some of the language, assumptions, and social attitudes of the era in which it was written.

Narrated by Paul Silver.

About Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1875, to a prosperous family. His father was a civil war veteran. Burroughs attended several private schools, concluding with the Michigan Military Academy at Orchar Lake. Here he later became an instructor and assistant commandant. During the First World War, he served in the Seventh Cavalry and Illinois Reserve Militia, and in 1900 he married Emma Centennia Hulbert, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. Burroughs tried his luck at several different occupations, including railroad policeman, advertising agency partner, and office manager, none of which were successful, and the family lived near poverty.

The turning point came when Burroughs started to write for pulp fiction magazines at the age of thirty-five. In 1912, Burroughs's first true success came with the publication of Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars in All-Story Magazine, which introduced his popular, invincible hero of Mars, John Carter. The Martian series eventually reached eleven books. Later that same year, Burroughs wrote his best-known book, Tarzan of the Apes. This was the start of his longest and most successful series, which eventually reached twenty-four books. Other popular stories from Burroughs's pen include the Carson of Venus books, the Pellucidar tales, and The Land That Time Forgot, a total of some sixty-eight titles.

In 1913, Burroughs founded his own publishing house, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., which still publishes his works today. Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises and Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures were founded in 1934. Burroughs also found time to dabble in politics and was elected mayor of California Beach in 1933. During World War II, at the age of 66, he served as a war correspondent in the South Pacific and wrote columns for the Honolulu Advertiser. Burroughs died of a heart ailment on March 19, 1950.


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