The book that invented the lost world genre. Published in 1918, during the final months of World War I, Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined a place where evolution never happened, where dinosaurs still walked the earth and cavemen battled mastodons. It's the kind of story that makes you remember why you first fell in love with books. Bowen Tyler, a shipbuilder aboard an American liner, survives a German torpedo attack only to wash up on Caprona, a remote island where the ages collide. Along with Lys, a woman he pulled from the burning sea, and the embittered German officer who loves her, Tyler must navigate a landscape of killer reptiles, hostile primitive tribes, and the slow erosion of everything they thought they knew about civilization. The real adventure isn't just surviving the dinosaurs. It's discovering what survival costs, and whether the person you become on this island is one you can live with once you finally leave.
