The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor E. Challenge (Puffin Classics)
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ISBN: 0140367489 / Publisher: Puffin Books, March 1995
Four Englishmen venture into the "prehistoric" world in a remote plateau of the South American jungle
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In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger—a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction—Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. “Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard—and in some sense established the formula—for the detective story . . . , so too has The Lost World set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . . ,” Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. “The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined inThe Lost World have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day.”
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