Malone is keen to join the professor on an expedition to the plateau. The professor claims that on a very high plateau, which became separated from the rest of the South American continent when it was pushed up by volcanic activity millions of years earlier, dinosaurs and other animals which became extinct in the rest of the world still exist. He is sent to interview the notoriously bad tempered Professor Challenger, who has fallen out of favor with the scientific community because of his outlandish stories about a remote region of South America. The novel's narrator and protagonist is a journalist named Edward Malone who wants to be given a dangerous assignment in order to impress his girlfriend. The Lost World is the first of five stories based around the character of Professor Challenger which Conan Doyle wrote. It was written by the Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. The Lost World is a science fiction adventure novel which was first published in 1912. For the 1995 novel by Michael Crichton, see The Lost World (Crichton)įront cover of a 1912 edition of The Lost World.
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