The Lost World (Puffin Classics) - Softcover

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140367489 ISBN 13: 9780140367485

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.

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Review:

Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behaviour towards the natives, he's a lot of fun.

Review:

"The Lost World . . . provide[s] evidence that Doyle had it in him to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time."--Sam Moskowitz The Lost World . . . provide[s] evidence that Doyle had it in him to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. Sam Moskowitz" The Lost World . . . provide[s] evidence that Doyle had it in him to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. Sam Moskowitz"

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140367489
• ISBN 13: 9780140367485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288