How you explore The Lost Continent on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 24 characters, 13 places, 6 objects and 11 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 42 passages of The Lost Continent sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Edgar Rice Burroughs instead.
The plot of The Lost Continent
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The East Beyond Thirty
- The Coldwater Cannot Hold
- Loyalty Becomes a Crime
- Exiled Into the Unknown
- England Has Been Erased
- The People Who Forgot England
- Bound at the Camp of the Lions
- Victory Questions Civilization
- The World Ranked in Reverse
- Menelek Claims the Queen
The author's pen in The Lost Continent
The passages themselves, Edgar Rice Burroughs's own words, as Literah maps it.
- The East Is Erased from Historych. 1
- The Coldwater Is Sinkingch. 1
- The Wireless Cannot Sendch. 1
- Alvarez Destroys the Instrumentsch. 1
- Turck Rebels Against the Established Orderch. 1
- Beyond Thirty Is Confirmedch. 1
- The Coldwater Abandons the Launchch. 1
- The Launch Turns Eastch. 2
- Devonport Has Vanishedch. 2
- The German Helmet at Devonportch. 2
- Delcarte Faces the Tigerch. 3
- The First Grubitten Humansch. 3
- What Is England?ch. 3
- The Silent Thamesch. 4
- A Lion Reigns Near Londonch. 4
- Turck Intervenes for Victorych. 4
- Buckingham Captures Turckch. 4
- Victory Rescues Turckch. 4
- Mary Announces the Queen's Deathch. 5
- Turck's Militarism Crumblesch. 5
The characters of The Lost Continent
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Jefferson Turckmajor
- Victorymajor
- John Alvarezsupporting
- Porfirio Johnsonsupporting
- The Chinese Emperorsupporting
- Delcartesupporting
- Taylorsupporting
- Snidersupporting
- Buckinghamsupporting
- Marysupporting
- Abu Beliksupporting
- Menelek XIVsupporting
- Thirty-sixsupporting
- Victory's Mother, the Queensupporting
- The Coldwater Chief Engineerminor
- The Coldwater Wireless Operatorminor
The locations in The Lost Continent
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- The 30° Meridian — Thirtymaritime boundary
- The Coldwateraero-submarine
- Ruined Devonport and the Southwestern English Coastruined city and coast
- The Grubitten Settlementsettlement
- The Thamesriver
- Ruined London — the Camp of the Lionsruined city
- Grabritin and Buckingham's Settlementtribal kingdom and settlement
- The Rhineriver
- Ruined Colognelost city site
- The Abyssinian Frontier Postmilitary fort
- New Gondarimperial city
- The Chinese Frontier City on Ancient Moscowfrontier city
- Pekingimperial capital
The core concepts in The Lost Continent
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- War promises victory but produces annihilation
- Civilization and barbarism exchange places
- Law commands obedience until conscience exposes the law as unjust
- Possession seeks to reduce people to property; sovereignty begins in refusal
- Suppressed history yields to material evidence and renewed contact
- Love becomes possible when rescue stops moving in only one direction
- Racial hierarchy appears natural only from the side that benefits from it
The objects of note in The Lost Continent
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The Coldwater
- The Coldwater Bridge and Navigation Instruments
- The Expedition Launch
- Turck's Automatic Rifle
- Victory's Knife
- Maps of Ancient Europe
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