The Lost Continent: A Quick Read edition

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Beyond Thirty is a science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first
published in 1916. The story is set in the year 2137, where the western
hemisphere has severed contact with the rest of the world, and the eastern
hemisphere has exhausted itself in war and descended into barbarism. The
protagonist, Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, is commander of the aero-submarine
Coldwater, which becomes stranded in the forbidden England. Turck and his
companions find England a wilderness inhabited by savages and overrun by lions
descended from zoo animals. They rescue Victory, daughter of the king, from
the henchmen of Buckingham, a local strongman who has killed her father. Turck
and Victory join the other Americans, and the combined party sails to the
European mainland, also reduced to savagery. Turck and Victory fall separately
into the hands of soldiers of the Abyssinian Empire, a black super-state now
ruling all of Africa, most of Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. Turck rescues
Victory during an attack on New Gondar by the forces of China, which have been
advancing into Europe from the east. The couple is captured by the invaders,
but made honored guests once the Chinese have heard their story. The copyright
for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the
public domain there.