# Beyond Thirty — Character guide

> Key figures in Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/victory.md): The Victory is both setting and symbol: a floating fragment of disciplined civilization pressing into waters no Western man has legally sailed for two centuries. Her mission is exploration and enforcement of the ancient 
- [Buckingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/buckingham.md): Jefferson Turck, twenty-one and bred to the navy, finds his era of peace suffocating and dreams of the wars and wildness his ancestors knew. That longing drives him past 30°, where a tiger's charge and a shipmate's death
- [Snider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/snider.md): Snider stands among Turck's men when the tiger emerges from the brush, his rifle shaking as he asks what the beast is. He is not a coward but a product of two centuries of safety, and his fear measures the gulf between h
- [Delcarte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/delcarte.md): Delcarte is the officer Turck watches fall, and his death is the story's first brutal lesson: that the old world beyond 30° kills without ceremony. He misunderstands an order, fires too soon, and faces the beast alone—ye
- [Menelek XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/menelek_xiv.md): Menelek XIV rules New Gondar with a scowl and a grip of iron, his authority tested by bombardment from without and defiance from within. When he seizes Victory and drags her toward his apartments, he embodies the predato
- [Taylor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/taylor.md): A crew member or officer on the Victory.
- [Porfirio Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/porfirio_johnson.md): A character with a Spanish-sounding name, possibly a crew member.
- [Lieutenant Alvarez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/lieutenant_alvarez.md): A lieutenant, possibly of Spanish origin, serving on the Victory.
- [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/mary.md): A female character, possibly a love interest or local woman.
- [Colonel Belik](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/colonel_belik.md): A colonel, possibly an antagonist or ally in the story.
- [Jefferson Turck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/jefferson_turck.md): A lieutenant serving on the Victory.
- [Wettin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/wettin.md): A character, possibly a noble or officer, with a German-sounding name.
- [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl.md): A young female character, possibly a local or captive.
- [the officer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_officer.md): An unnamed officer who interacts with the narrator.
- [Mr. Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/mr_johnson.md): A character, possibly a civilian or officer, with the surname Johnson.
- [Sir Phillip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/sir_phillip.md): A knight or nobleman, possibly a British officer.

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