The Land That Time Forgot
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The adventures of a group of Americans who, wandering in uncharted seas, make their way into the weird island of Caprona. There they find a strange country teeming with grotesque animal life that, in the known world, has been extinct for countless ages. In the steaming rivers and amid the lush growth of the jungle, gigantic reptiles peer at them with gleaming eyes. Huge, hideous, deadly monsters—a veritable Mesozoic nightmare. Fully restored, with the Frank R. Paul cover from its appearance in Amazing Stories.
263 pages, approx. 6"x9"
3 Comments
MBrown
April 29, 2009Ok. As someone who has long been a fan of Burrough’s non-Tarzan novels, I have all the Ace paperbacks of his works.
I would like to know more info on this edition to decide if its something to buy.
What do you mean by ‘fully restored’? What was restored?
The Caspak series was a trilogy of novelas. Is this the first novela, or the entire trilogy?
Matt
May 8, 2009Yes, these are all three stories in one. Subsequent POD reprintings lacked some characters, etc., in their versions. They’ve been restored here.
Charles R.L. Power
September 29, 2012My understanding is that the three stories originally appeared separately, and were then collected into the novel The Land That Time Forgot. During the great ERB revival of the 1960s, Dover reprinted the novel, but Ace came out with separate reprint of the three magazine stories in their original versions, which had a somewhat fuller text. Since then the three parts of the novel have been reappearing as a “trilogy” although it was in fact simply a three-part novel.