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The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America...

Step into a thrilling journey of discovery and adventure with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic masterpiece, The Lost World. From the creator of the immortal detective Sherlock Holmes, comes a tale of exploration that takes readers to an uncharted plateau in the Amazon where time... Read Full Overview

Edward Malone, a reporter for the Daily Gazette, interviews Professor George Edward Challenger, to determine the truth of his claims about his trip to South America. Challenger reveals his discovery of living dinosaurs in South America, and invites Malone on a trip to prove...

Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist...

"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carr

"Every writer owes something to Holmes." -T.S. Eliot

Although Sherlock Holmes is Arthur Conan Doyle's most popular character, the introduction of Professor Challenger...

An exciting account of a jungle expedition s encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author s Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment of the Professor Challenger series, follows an eccentric paleontologist and... Read Full Overview

The creator of Sherlock Holmes dabbled in many other genres including science fiction, and in this 1912 fantasy he transported readers to the wilds of the Amazon for a rollicking adventure among dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The Lost World is the first and best of... Read Full Overview

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth, -a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such... Read Full Overview

The first in Arthur Conan Doyle's series of books featuring the popular character of Professor Challenger, The Lost World is a classic tale of adventure and discovery. A scientific team embarks on an expedition to a South American plateau, where they find a seemingly impenetrable... Read Full Overview

The Lost World

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures)...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author who found fame writing about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a prolific writer who also wrote science fiction, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction..An exciting account of a jungle expedition's encounter... Read Full Overview

In The Lost World , the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger--a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction--Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor... Read Full Overview

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it's language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I've come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search,...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" is the third installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. It's a special edition fully illustrated and complete with bonus... Read Full Overview

Unabridged value reproduction of THE LOST WORLD by the original master of mystery Arthur Conan Doyle. Join the enigmatic and forceful Professor Challenger into the terrifying world of dinosaurs roaming wild. Adventure and mayhem, with humor sprinkled throughout, provide for a... Read Full Overview