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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Timeless tales of adventure from Edgar Rice Burroughs, July 14, 1999
The year is 1916. The Great War is raging half a world away from the desolate, rocky shore of Greenland where a perfectly good thermos bottle washes up on the wave-swept shore. A man stoops to pick up the strange bottle. Inside is a manuscript-the fantastic story of adventurer Bowen Tyler, who has been taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, and at this moment is battling flesh-ripping dinosaurs and brutal cave men on the lost continent of Caspak. In the uncharted seas at the bottom of the world, the submarine has stumbled upon the towering, rock-bound coastline that kept Caspak hidden for eons.Book one, The Land That Time Forgot, is the story of Bowen Tyler's adventures on the mysterious forgotten continent where the savage inhabitants of millions of years past roam beast-infested jungles. Book two, The People That Time Forgot, begins when Tom Billings goes in search of his lost friend. More giant prehistoric creatures of the land, sea and air of Caspak battle the bewildered but determined Billings. Book three, Out of Time's Abyss, neatly wraps up the Caspak trilogy by unraveling the mystery of the land where time has stopped. The characters of the two previous books reunite in a satisfying and spectacular conclusion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the Tarzan books as well as the founder of the town of Tarzana, California, lived from 1875 to 1950. His seventy science fiction and adventure books, including Tarzan of the Apes, A Princess of Mars, and Carson of Venus, have remained popular since their publications. Several of his books have been made into motion pictures; Tarzan has been made and remade several times, the latest of which is Disney's summer of `99 animation. The first two books of the Caspak trilogy and At the Earth's Core were made in the early 60s in black and white; all three starred Doug McClure.
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