The Lost World
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Table of contents
- Title Page2
- Copyright Page3
- Table of Contents4
- Note5
- 1. There are Heroisms All Round Us6
- 2. Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger8
- 3. He is a Perfectly Impossible Person11
- 4. It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World14
- 5. Question!20
- 6. I was the Flail of the Lord24
- 7. To-morrow We Disappear Into the Unknown27
- 8. The Outlying Pickets of the New World31
- 9. Who Could Have Foreseen It?35
- 10. The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened43
- 11. For Once I Was the Hero48
- 12. It Was Dreadful in the Forest53
- 13. A Sight I Shall Never Forget58
- 14. Those Were the Real Conquests63
- 15. Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders68
- 16. A Procession! A Procession!74
The restless, questing intellect of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spurred him far beyond the ingenious puzzles he constructed for Sherlock Holmes. In The Lost World, Doyle, a devotee of the occult and fantastic tales of adventure and discovery, introduces his readers to Professor Challenger, an eccentric paleontologist, on his suspense-filled search for prehistoric creatures in the wilds of the Amazon. Professor Challenger's doughty troupe includes a skeptical colleague, Professor Summerlee; the cool-headed, plucky sportsman Lord John Roxton; and the narrator, the intrepid reporter Edward Malone. When their bridge to civilization collapses, the explorers find themselves marooned among dinosaurs and savage ape-people. Originally published in 1912, this imaginative fantasy unfolds with humor and good-natured satirical eye for pedantry. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle will delight in this rare gem, as will dinosaur fanciers and adventure story aficionados.