EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE Beyond Thirty Restored Edition Hardcover

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Beyond Thirty was first published in the February 1916 issue of All Around Magazine and was later retitled The Lost Continent when published in paperback by Ace Books in 1963. But what has remained unknown until now is that more than 4,000 words—including lengthy passages of text—were excised from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original hand-corrected typescript by the pulp magazine editor... words that have been absent from every edition since the novel’s first publication. Now Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition corrects this egregious error with its historic release, including a new foreword by editor Christopher Paul Carey discussing the context in which the novel was written, Burroughs’ plans for a film adaptation of the tale, and the significance of restored material. Set in the 22nd century, the nations of North and South America have entirely cut themselves off from contact with Europe, Africa, and Asia following a terrifying global war, drawing a line at 30 degrees East in the Atlantic and 175 degrees West in the Pacific—a barrier that no soul may cross without suffering the utmost punishment and disgrace. No citizen of the futuristic Pan-American Federation knows the fate of the rest of the world in the intervening two hundred years since it was isolated from the Western Hemisphere. But when an accident causes the aero-submarine Coldwater to inadvertently pass beyond the dreaded thirtieth degree to the European continent, its captain and crew find a post-apocalyptic landscape devoid of all signs of civilization, populated by warlike tribes and ferocious wildlife! This edition features classic cover art by Sanjulian and a frontispiece by Frank Frazetta, as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus materials from the archives of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.