The People That Time Forgot

Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by Brian Emerson

In uncharted Caprona, a continent lost from the map of the earth, where time had stopped and all the primeval creatures of long-gone ages still prowled, Bowen Tyler was lost. To find Tyler, Thomas Billings traveled across the world to Caprona, with all the weaponry the modern world afforded. A light hydroplane would allow him to scale the perilous wall of cliffs that surrounded the island and rifles, pistols, and ammunition would provide protection against the monstrous prehistoric beings Tyler had so vividly described. But even stranger mysteries awaited him where that barbaric civilization hid, torn between the impassable jungle on the one side and an unknown menace on the other.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio
• Release date: Aug 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781455127061

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.

Reviews for The People That Time Forgot

[gregorio_roth · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The present rubbed legs with the past, it played a strange melody. Edgar Rice Burroughs leads a tour of Capak. He leads us through strange lands amidst noble savages and sub-humans. The book is a Capak tour, but lacks action to be exciting. It makes me wonder if he was forced to write this one.

(I listened to this on libri vox read by Ralph Snelson)

[randystafford · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Burroughs does something interesting in the second installment of the Caspak series. Rather than being narrated by the hero of The Land That Time Forgot, Tyler Bowen, this story is narrated by his friend Thomas Billings. Billings gets Bowen's manuscript - thrown into the ocean inside a thermos -- and undertakes a rescue expedition. Of course, Billings happens to be an aviator, crack shot, and all around great cowboy. The novel has a couple of points of interest: the details of how some primitive humans physically evolve in their lifetime and move from tribe to tribe accordingly and Billings cluelessly not realizing that he's falling in love with native woman (and true human) Ajor - a "squaw" not of his race or culture.A quick, short and worthwhile read despite Burroughs characteristically ludicrous coincidences.

[sylak_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thomas Billings searches prehistoric Caspak for his good friend Bowen Tyler after a manuscript sent in a bottle arrives in his hands (apparently sent from the uncharted volcanic island of Caprona where Tyler is stranded). With the backing and wealth of Tyler's family behind him, Billings heads an expedition to the lost world; but during his first reconnaissance in an air-boat he is attacked by pterodactyls and forced down. Now together with a girl savage named Ajor they fight for their very lives in a terrifying world where dinosaurs still rule the earth, the waters and the skies!

[john257hopper · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I was a bit disappointed with this sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. I was expecting it to follow the adventures of Bowen Tyler and Lys after they accept their fate as being finally stranded in Caspak beyond hope of rescue. Instead it follows the adventures of Tom Billings, the man who finds the message in a bottle that Tyler threw into the sea at the end of the previous novel. He and his companions attempt to land on Caspak and Tom adventures across the land accompanied by a woman he meets, Ajor. This novel relies less on action and more of how Tom discovers more about the complicated societies on the island, where individual members of tribes progress through levels from apelike creatures to increasingly higher forms of humanity. This makes the novel somewhat more intellectually interesting but less readable as an adventure story.

[nx74defiant · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fun adventure story. Tom goes to rescue his friend only to crash. He has an adventure and rescues a beautiful girl.