The lost world : being an account of the recent adventures of Professor E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. Ed Malone of the "Daily Gazette" / Arthur Conan Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character).

Prehistoric peoples--Fiction.

Prehistoric peoples.

Dinosaurs--Fiction.

Dinosaurs.

South America--Fiction.

South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Academy Chicago Publishers, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Lost World is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big game hunter and a journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. The Lost World is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure that has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest sciencefiction stories ever written.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; There Are Heroisms All Round Us; Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger; He is a Perfectly Impossible Person; It's Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World; Question!; I Was the Flail of the Lord; Tomorrow We Disappear into the Unknown; The Outlying Pickets of the New World; Who Could Have Foreseen It?; The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened; For Once I Was the Hero; It Was Dreadful in the Forest; A Sight I Shall Never Forget; Those Were the Real Conquests; Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders; A Procession! a Procession!

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-89733-858-8

0-89733-859-6

OCLC:

1055474161