John Ames Mitchell (1845–1918)
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- Mitchell, John Ames
- Födelsedag
- 1845-01-17
- Avled
- 1918-06-19
- Kön
- male
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1908)
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- 19
- Även av
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 110
- Popularitet
- #176,729
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 5
- ISBN
- 30
Aboard the Zlotuhb in the year 2951 is the title page to this future history novella. It is a diary by the captain of the Persian exploratory ship which has been sent to search for the lost continent of Mehrika. They are sent on their way by Hedful the curator of the Imperial museum at Shiraz:
He holds the opinion with many other historians that the Mehrikans were a mongrel race, with little or no patriotism, and were purely imitative; simply an enlarged copy of other nationalities extant at the time. He pronounces them a shallow, nervous, extravagant people, and accords them but few redeeming virtues.
The wealth, luxury, and gradual decline of the native population; the frightful climatic changes which swept the country like a mower's scythe; the rapid conversion of a vast continent, alive with millions of pleasure-loving people, into a silent wilderness, where the sun and moon look down in turn upon hundreds of weed-grown cities,
They do of course find Mehrika and succeed in accidentally finishing off the last living Mehrikans . This is a satirical novel/novella/magazine article which can be read for free at project Gutenberg. It was republished in 1893 as a small hardcover book of 78 pages illustrated with half page etchings inserted into the text. Today it is a half an hours light reading with the main interest of working out the satirical names of the crew members:
Grip-til-lah, Nofuhl, Lev-el-Hedyd, Ja-khaz and the rest.
However Mitchell might have been prescient in predicting the dystopia of climate change. 2.5 stars.… (mer)