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The Lost World

Professor Challenger finds a plateau where the dinosaurs survived.

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Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a remote South American plateau where prehistoric creatures survive. The explorers face unfamiliar dangers and the challenge of bringing evidence home.

A By Arthur Conan Doyle

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The journalist Malone joins the belligerent Professor Challenger, the sceptic Summerlee and the hunter Lord John Roxton on an expedition to a South American plateau that Challenger claims is still inhabited by prehistoric animals. Getting there proves easier than getting back.

Conan Doyle’s adventure invented a whole genre, and Challenger is his best character after Holmes: vain, rude, physically alarming and usually right.

1. How Challenger works as a character, insufferable and correct at the same time.
2. Why the expedition’s problem shifts from proving the plateau exists to surviving it.
3. How the novel set the template for every lost-world and dinosaur story after it.
4. What Malone’s narration, written as dispatches, does for the pacing.
5. How scientific scepticism is dramatised through Summerlee’s running objections.
6. Why the question of evidence, and what would count as proof, runs through the whole book.

Book details

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher

Lexicon Publishing

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Additional information

SKU

TL-S99F2Q23

Category

Fiction