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Beyond a wall of icebound cliffs, a lost world may still hold people who need rescuing.
In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s The People That Time Forgot, a strange manuscript brings doubt and hope to a library in Santa Monica. Bowen Tyler describes Caspak, a prehistoric world within Caprona. He and Miss La Rue are missing, and his account offers a troubling possibility: they may still be alive among creatures that seem to belong to another age.
Tom Billings takes command of a rescue expedition aboard the Toreador. An unreliable map makes Caprona hard to find, while icebergs crowd the surrounding sea. Finding the island is only the beginning. Sheer cliffs block the way into Caspak, and the passage beneath them admits a submarine—not their yacht. Loyalty now demands more than courage; it demands a way inside.
What you’ll discover
- A manuscript worth believing Follow the uneasy shift from suspicion toward hope as Tyler’s extraordinary account faces scrutiny.
- A friend who acts Meet Tom Billings, whose loyalty to Bowen turns uncertainty into a determined rescue mission.
- An island behind barriers Approach Caprona through freezing seas, where towering cliffs make arrival another obstacle.
- A world without children Consider the strangest claim in Tyler’s account: tribes among whom he finds no children.
- Danger beyond familiar maps Feel the pull of Caspak, where prehistoric creatures make the missing travelers’ survival uncertain.
Who will love it
Readers who love lost worlds, dinosaurs, daring pilots, loyal dogs and fast-moving survival tales will feel at home here. It also suits anyone curious about early adventure fiction and its inventive ideas about evolution.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A manuscript sends a rescue south
- A crash lands Billings among monsters
- Learning Caspak from a girl with a knife
- Captured, bound, and lost underground
- A feast, a dog, and a vanished girl
- Evolution, pride, and the voice of Billings
Who’s who
- Tom BillingsA former cowhand and the right-hand man of the Tyler family, he flies into Caspak to rescue his friend and finds something else to fight for.
- AjorA Galu girl of the golden race, quick with a knife and fiercely loyal, she is hunted because she may give rise to a higher people.
- Bowen TylerBillings's college friend and fan of paleontology, he is missing in Caspak and is the reason the rescue party sails.
- NobsBowen's Airedale, a brave fighter who joins Billings when they meet in a village and guards him through the northern country.
- Du-seenA powerful Galu warrior who wants Ajor and her father's rule, and who bargains with other tribes to take power.
- Al-tanThe huge chief of the eastern Kro-lu, proud of his bow and ready to ally with Du-seen against Jor.
- Chal-azA Kro-lu warrior freed by Billings, he repays the debt with loyalty, a Galu outfit and a plan to oppose Al-tan.
- To-marA Band-lu warrior who swears friendship to Billings after a rifle shot saves his mate So-al, and who has answered the call to become a Kro-lu.
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Das vergessene Volk
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1918
A pilot crashes into a tree in a land of dinosaurs, and a mud-streaked girl with a knife becomes his guide.
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The People That Time Forgot is a lost-world adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs, set during the First World War and the second of his Caprona tales. It opens in a California library, where a man holds a manuscript he only half believes, written by a college joker named Bowen Tyler.
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A manuscript sends a rescue south
The first chapter is a frame. A man travels to the Tyler house in Santa Monica to hand Bowen Tyler's manuscript to his father. He doubts it, because Bowen was known at college as a practical joker. While he and the assistant secretary wait for the father's yacht, the Toreador, they talk through the tale of a torpedoed liner, a captured German submarine and the hidden island of Caspak.
Then the telephone rings with news that Mr. Tyler, Sr., has died at sea. His secretary, Tom Billings, takes charge at once. Billings is a former cowhand who rose through the Tyler business and never shirks the hardest job. Within ten days he has organized an expedition of forty people to find Bowen and the girl who sailed with him, Lys La Rue.
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What is The People That Time Forgot about?
It follows Tom Billings, who flies a seaplane over the cliffs of Caprona to rescue his friend Bowen Tyler. Stranded in Caspak, he meets a Galu girl named Ajor and crosses a land of dinosaurs and tribes.
Do I need to read The Land That Time Forgot first?
The opening pages recall the earlier tale of the submarine, Bowen Tyler and Lys La Rue. That gives enough background to follow this story, which stands as its own adventure with a new narrator.
What does Caspak mean in the book?
Caspak is the hot, crater-like land inside the barrier cliffs of the island Caprona. Its warm, humid air shelters dinosaurs, cave animals and human tribes at every stage of evolution.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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