The Lost World
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Cover: Leaping Laelaps (1897) by Charles R. Knight (1874-1953) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The Lost World is an adventure and science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounting an expedition to a remote plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals still survive, along with a tribe of vicious ape-like creatures that are in conflict with a group of indigenous Indians. The work introduces the character of Professor Challenger, who leads the expedition (and who would appear in later Conan Doyle stories), and is narrated in the first person by the journalist member (Edward Malone) of the exploration party.
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Table of contents
- 1: "There Are Heroisms All Round Us"
- 2: "Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger"
- 3: "He is a Perfectly Impossible Person"
- 4: "It's Just the very Biggest Thing in the World"
- 5: "Question!"
- 6: "I was the Flail of the Lord"
- 7: "To-morrow we Disappear into the Unknown"
- 8: "The Outlying Pickets of the New World"
- 9: "Who could have Foreseen it?"
- 10: "The most Wonderful Things have Happened"
- 11: "For once I was the Hero"
- 12: "It was Dreadful in the Forest"
- 13: "A Sight which I shall Never Forget"
- 14: "Those Were the Real Conquests"
- 15: "Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders"
- 16: "A Procession! A Procession!"