The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor E. Challenge (Puffin Classics) - Softcover

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140367489 ISBN 13: 9780140367485

Publisher: Puffin Books, 1995

Synopsis

Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.

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Review:

Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he's a lot of fun.

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6 1.5-hour cassettes

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140367489
• ISBN 13: 9780140367485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Illustrator: Newsham Ian