The Lost World (Tor Classics) - Softcover

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812564839 ISBN 13: 9780812564839

Publisher: Tor Books, 1997

Synopsis

The account of a scientific expedition by four intrepid Englishmen from the gaslit safety of Victorian London to a remote plateau in the South American jungle. In this region beyond time, they encounter hideous survivors from the dawn of history -- swarms of titanic reptiles and prehuman ape-men -- and must use cunning and superior intellect to escape.

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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:

"Two scenes, one from a book and the other from a film, continue to evoke dinosaurs as they did in my youth: The swamp-forests of "King Kong" on the one hand, and Arthur Conan Doyle's" The Lost World. "It was really 'dreadful in the forest....'" --Brian Lumley, author of the Necroscope series "Geologists delve for dinosaurs in dust, and all they find are bare bones. But Conan Doyle, in his timeless tale, brings those bones to life. No explorer can match the thrills which await readers who discover "The Lost World" today." --Robert Block, author of "Psycho"

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0812564839
• ISBN 13: 9780812564839
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256