Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: Blue Book Magazine, 1918 (published in novel form in 1963

What the Story is About: The third book in Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy, it continues the story of The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot, in which WW I-era men are trapped on a South Seas island teeming with prehistoric fauna. “It connects the previous two installments, bringing in characters introduced in each. Burroughs completes the revelation of his lost world’s unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.” (from Wikipedia)

You can download an audiobook version of the story at Librivox.

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: Blue Book Magazine, 1918 (published as a novel in 1963)

What the Story is About: The second book of Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy, and a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. It follows the continuing adventures of the men stranded on a South Seas island full of prehistoric fauna. “Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world’s unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.” (from Wikipedia)

You can download the audiobook version at Project Gutenberg. or at Librivox.

Length: novel

First Publication: 1918

What the Story is About: The first novel in Burroughs “Caspak” trilogy. In this “lost world” story set during WWI, a U-boat crew is stranded on an island teeming with prehistoric fauna, including dinosaurs and Neanderthals. “Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.” ( From Wikipedia).

You can also download the audiobook version from Project Gutenburg or at Librivox.