TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,John Ames
TI  - The Last American: A Fragment from the Journal of Khan-li, Prince of Dimph-yoo-chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_American_(novel); Release date is 2005-02-01; Produced by Paul Lappen; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Last American" by John Ames Mitchell is a novel published in 1889. Set in 2951, it follows Persian explorer Khan-Li who rediscovers a long-abandoned America, devastated by catastrophic climate change centuries earlier. Through the explorers' journals, Mitchell presents a satirical commentary on late 19th-century American society, seen through foreign eyes examining ruins and artifacts. The Persians piece together a civilization's rise and fall, finding both grandeur and troubling social developments in America's remnants. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7485
ER  -