The Lost World (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Jones, Jeremiah; Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486400603 ISBN 13: 9780486400600

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

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 his companions into the wilds of the Amazon, where they discover iguanodons, pterodactyls, and savage ape-people.

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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

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486400603
• ISBN 13: 9780486400600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176