The Last American

A short novel by John Ames Mitchell, a publisher, architect, artist, novelist, popular in the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, was published in 1889. The action takes place in 2951, when a Persian expedition explores the territory of former United States of America, a civilization that disappeared as result of ecological catastrophe. The inquisitive Persian rummage around reconstructing American way of life, till they stumble across a run wild American. The story offers a satirical look at