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Overview
The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
The idea of prehistoric animals surviving into the present day was not new, but had already been introduced by Jules Verne in Journey to the Center of the Earth. In Jules Verne's book, published in 1864, the creatures live under the earth in and around a subterranean sea.
In 1915, the Russian scientist Vladimir Obruchev produced his own version of the "lost world" theme in the novel Plutonia, which places the prehistoric species in a fictional space inside the hollow Earth connected to the surface via an opening in the Russian far north. In 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs published The Land That Time Forgot. His "lost world" was discovered by German submariners in Antarctica.
In addition to lending its title to this subgenre, the title of Doyle's work was reused by Michael Crichton in his 1995 novel The Lost World, a sequel to Jurassic Park, and its film adaptation, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Two of the characters in Crichton's novel mention a palaeontologist called John Roxton. ... (wikipedia.org)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781644399798 |
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Publisher: | Indoeuropeanpublishing.com |
Publication date: | 01/07/2023 |
Pages: | 144 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d) |
Age Range: | 12 - 14 Years |
About the Author
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Date of Birth:
May 22, 1859Date of Death:
July 7, 1930Place of Birth:
Edinburgh, ScotlandPlace of Death:
Crowborough, Sussex, EnglandEducation:
Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885Read an Excerpt
Tom Standage is the former technology editor and current business editor at the Economist. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Social Media-The First 2000 Years, the bestseller A History of the World in 6 Glasses, An Edible History of Humanity, The Turk, and The Neptune File. He lives in London.
Table of Contents
1 | There Are Heroisms All Round Us | 9 |
2 | Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger | 19 |
3 | He is a Perfectly Impossible Person | 31 |
4 | It's Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World | 44 |
5 | Question! | 71 |
6 | I Was the Flail of the Lord | 93 |
7 | Tomorrow We Disappear Into the Unknown | 109 |
8 | The Outlying Pickets of the New World | 126 |
9 | Who Could Have Foreseen It? | 148 |
10 | The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened | 186 |
11 | For Once I Was the Hero | 210 |
12 | It Was Dreadful in the Forest | 237 |
13 | A Sight I Shall Never Forget | 263 |
14 | Those Were the Real Conquests | 288 |
15 | Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders | 313 |
16 | A Procession! A Procession! | 341 |
What People are Saying About This
Theologists delve for dinosaurs in dust, and all they find are bare bones: but Conan Doyle, in a timeless tale, brings those bones to life. No explorer can match the thrills of the way readers discover The Lost World today.