Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/centuriesapart00bouvCenturies Apart is about a group of Civil War Union soldiers who, dispatched by President Lincoln, quasi-time travel to a quasi-medieval England in the heart of Antarctica. This land, called South England, has been cut off from regular England since the the 1500s - and there's also a "New France" just south of it, peopled with descendants from 16th Century France. The account is based on the journal of one of the officers.
"[SOUTH ENGLAND is] a large Island in the verdant heart of Antarctica inhabited since around 1500 by an English Lost Race, for whom history has stopped short. The island itself is shaped like a squat British Isles, and is dominated by New London...The ruling monarchy, descended from Plantagenets defeated in the War of the Roses, is slowly becoming dysfunctional; descriptions of the social and political world of New England are similar in tone and content to those offered by Mark Twain's mouthpiece in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Romance and dissension soon bring on the inevitable disaster."
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Genres for the project: Humorous Fiction; Romance
Keywords that describe the book: romance, fantasy, alternate history, lost world, lost race
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