Cover of La lasta Usonano

La lasta Usonano

by John Ames Mitchell

Translated by Lehman Wendell

"La lasta Usonano" by John Ames Mitchell is an illustrated novel published in 1889. The story presents a fictional journal of a Persian explorer who rediscovers America in 2951, centuries after climatic catastrophes made North America uninhabitable. Through the eyes of these future archaeologists, Mitchell offers a satirical critique of late 19th-century American society, examining its customs, social changes, and eventual collapse with both wonder and contempt as the Persians piece together fragments of a vanished civilization.

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Esperanto
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