The Lost World
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World follows a paleontologist and his companions—including Professor Challenger, in his first of many appearances in Doyle’s books—into the Amazon jungle where they encounter living dinosaurs, including iguanodons, stegosauruses, pterodactyls, and more.
Written with the same wit and style as Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, The Lost World is an exciting and original tale that served as inspiration for Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, both of which were memorably adapted into feature films directed by Steven Spielberg.
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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."
