The Lost World
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Publisher Description
"The Lost World" is a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1912. It is a science fiction work and is set in South America. The protagonists are the brilliant Professor Challenger (zoologist) and his rival, Professor Summerlee. Then there are the other two traveling companions: the young journalist Malone and the hunter Lord Roxton. The protagonists find themselves catupulted in a "lost" and hostile world in which they live thrilling adventures among dinisauri, pterodactyls and "monkey men". Action, adventure, suspense give pure adrenaline to the reader.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 1912, Doyle took his Victorian readers deep into the South American jungles where, high atop a treacherous plateau, a small band of British explorers encountered a terrifying world of prehistoric creatures long thought lost to the sands of time. The adventurers included a young newspaper reporter, Ed Malone; the swashbuckling aristocrat, Lord Roxton; the skeptical scientist, Professor Summerlee; and the brilliant and bombastic Professor Challenger, who leads the party. Doyle unfolds high adventure at its best with fantastic encounters with pterodactyls, stegosaurs and cunning ape -men. Glen McCready's performance captures the time and tone of Doyle's material perfectly without straying into melodrama. He nicely balances Malone's sense of youthful wonder with the professors' scientific pragmatism, while fully exploiting the humor spread strategically throughout, planting numerous chuckles among the thrills. McCready's entertaining reading more than fulfills the author's introductory wish to "give one hour of joy to the boy who's half a man, or the man who's half a boy."
