The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

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The classic lost world adventure from the author of Sherlock Holmes. No one believed Professor Challenger’s claims... ...that dinosaurs existed in the Amazon jungle. Critics ridiculed and mocked him, but he was as stubborn as he was intelligent. He was willing to venture into the jungles with nothing but a crude map, a skeptical professor, a big game hunter, and a reporter. Their adventure took them across an ocean, up the Amazon river, and deep into lands barely explored by adventurers in the early 20th century. When they finally reached the plateau on their map, they encountered their first big challenge--ascending the cliffs onto the plateau. To be so close to proving his claims with no way to ascend left the party frustrated. Professor Challenger however believed in determined ingenuity and did not give up easily. Would they find what they expected... ...or would they find more than they could handle? You’ll love this classic adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, because of the lost world of dinosaurs, lost tribes, ape-men, and a scientist determined to prove he is right.

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 25, 1859 in Edinburgh Scotland, the son of Irish Catholics. At the age of 9 he was sent to a Jesuit boarding school in England, where he found a penchant and liking for telling stories. After graduation he attended medical school. While in medical school he met authors James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson. He received his degree in 1880 and his medical career involved stints in private practice, ship’s surgeon on a ship voyaging to the Arctic Circle, a combat surgeon during the Boer’s Wars, and one private practice where he ended up not seeing any patients. While he continued writing during this time it was 1887 before he published his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. The character was heavily influenced by his favorite professor from medical school who was a master at observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis. The great success of Sherlock Holmes led to a dichotomy for the author in which his detective stories became great commercial successes while the novels he loved to write did not have the same commercial success. He also was more well-known initially in America than he was in his home country. The Sign of Four, his most ambitious Sherlock novel to date led him to acquire a representative which resulted in a deal with Strand Magazine to publish his stories on a regular basis. In 1891, after a severe case of influenza, he decided to write full time and he discontinued his medical practice. The Final Problem, published in December 1893, had been Doyle’s effort to rid himself of the task of writing about his most famous character and Holmes, along with his nemesis Moriarty, plunged to their deaths at The Reichenbach Falls. Doyle wasn’t able to completely escape from writing additional Holme’s stories after this, but he did eventually find the time to create another larger than life character, Professor George Edward Challenger. The Lost World, published in 1912, brought this character to life and met with great commercial success as well. The boy’s story—there was no sci-fi genre at the time—spawned three more novels as well as similar stories in what became known as the Lost World genre where dinosaurs, lost tribes, and lost lands became the setting for many adventures. Books, movies and TV shows for the next 100 years used this as fertile ground for creating exciting stories and wonderful adventures.