The Last American

The Last American is a short illustrated future history novel by John Ames Mitchell (1845–1918). First published in 1889, the novel is the fictional journal of a Persian explorer named Khan-Li, who sails across the Atlantic in 2951 and rediscovers America. Most of the narrative consists of a satirical and unflattering view of late 19th-century American society through the eyes of the Persians, who are simultaneously impressed by its grandeur and contemptuous of social developments Mitchell did not approve of, such as the equality of the sexes and the presence in America of the Irish. This book is among the anti-utopian disaster literature published in the late 19th century,