Lost Worlds: The Ultimate Anthology: 31 Classic Tales

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Long before Indiana Jones...

The ‘Lost World’ or ‘Lost Race’ genre was one of the most popular genres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This Masterworks of Adventure anthology is a collection of 31 tales considered to be among the best and most influential works. We started with 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel, by Crawford, Donahue and Grant , which lists the best works published before 1950, then cross-referenced them with Science-fiction, the Early Years by Everett Franklin Bleiler, Stuart Teitler’s By the World Forgot: Towards a Bibliography of Lost Race Fiction from 1800, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Lost Race Check Guide, the ultimate checklist for collectors. You’ll find stories told in a variety of styles: travelogues, boy’s adventure, romantic adventure, philosophical adventure and pulp fiction. Some have been made available for Kindle for the very first time and are exclusive to ROH Press.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s Genre-Defining Tales
King Solomon’s Mines
Allan Quatermain
She: A History of Adventure

Lost Worlds in Africa
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari by Frederick Carruthers Cornell
The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
By the Gods Beloved by Baroness Orczy

Lost Worlds in North America
The Aztec Treasure House by Thomas A. Janvier

Lost Worlds in Central America
The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance by William Westall
The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs by Charles Sumner Seeley

Lost Worlds in South America
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Lost Worlds in India and Asia
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
A Daughter of Astrea by E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Crystal Sceptre by Philip Verrill Mighels
The Mountain Kingdom: A Narrative of Adventure by David Lawson Johnstone
Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley by Talbot Mundy
Fields of Sleep by E Charles Vivian
The Metal Monster by A. Merritt

Lost Worlds in Europe and the Middle East
No-Man's-Land by John Buchan
The Knight of the Silver Star by Percy James Brebner

Lost Worlds in Australia
The Lost Explorer by James Francis Hogan
Marooned on Australia by Ernest Favenc
Eureka by Owen Hall

Lost Worlds at the Poles
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James DeMille
The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country, by John O. Greene
Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. Stilson
The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson

Hollow Earth
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Under the Auroras: A Marvelous Tale of the Interior World by William Jenkins Shaw
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt

Essay
The Queen of California by Edward Everett Hale