The Lost World
The Lost World

The Lost World

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Product NameThe Lost World
ManufacturerPenguin USA
Product Number MPN0140367489
Retail Price $4.99
EAN-1409780140367485
UPC978014036748
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TitleThe Lost World (Puffin Classics)
ISBN0140367489
Author(s)Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Ian Newsham
Release DateMarch, 1995
FormatPaperback
Weight0.5 lbs.
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4 Star Rating  "A grand romp back to the Age of Exploration"2009-03-06
- Reviewed By resqgeek
What if dinosaurs had somehow survived, living in isolation in some remote, unexplored corner of the world? This classic adventure story starts with just that premise, and builds it into a lively tale of exploration and discovery. Mostly told in a first person narrative, the reader is taken into the very heart of the story as a team heads off to South America to verify a discovery that is impossible for a skeptical world to believe. Written almost a century ago, Doyle's novel takes us back to the age of Empire and Exploration, when anything seemed possible, and the there were still places on the Earth that had not yet been fully explored. This story grabs the reader and doesn't let go until the very last page.
 
4 Star Rating  "Nice edition of 'Lost World'"2008-11-12
- Reviewed By User: A2OTKDIQEN1M5I
Good inexpensive edition of ACD's "Lost World."

Comes with a nice (though overly hyperbolic and post-modernist) 15-page introduction, and 10 pages of "explanatory notes."
 
5 Star Rating  "An escape book!"2008-08-19
- Reviewed By User: ACOBR6E6FLF3I
Another classic adventure which uses the written word instead of computer graphics to make you visualize this mysterious world of sudden death by million year old living beasts and proto-humans. Get your best Amazon River basin map out and see if you locate this wonderous plateau. If you have seen the movie, you only have half the story. Read the book. For fun, become familiar with the story of "Col. Fawcett" and his expedition in the Amazon.
 
5 Star Rating  "Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite character"2007-12-30
- Reviewed By User: ATSO7AOHFHUMB
Professor Challenger is his creator's favourite character, hot tempered, irascible but full of life and vitality. The book is easier to read than the Sherlock Holmes novels and the story is extremely interesting. Definitely worth reading.
 
5 Star Rating  "Masterful adventure in a prehistoric paradise"2007-12-16
- Reviewed By User: A10T0OW97SFBB
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shows us in The Lost World that he is capable of far more than short detective stories. In this book we are taken on a journey into the heart of the Amazon in South America, to an isolated place where the prehistoric has survived to the present. Four men together face the wonderous awe and danger inherent in such a place, which quickly shifts from paradise to hell and back again as new dangers and wonders present themselves.

The four men who undertake this expedition are: (1) Professor Challenger, an immensely conceited (and brilliant) scientist who has perhaps the worst temper I have ever read about coupled with a very dominating personality, (2) Professor Summerlee, a scientist with a very acidic personality who is rather less courageous than the rest of the party and whose chief role is largely to constantly argue with Professor Challenger, (3) Lord John Roxton, a rather level-headed explorer/big-game hunter who is somewhat a mentor to the main character/narrator who is, (4) Ed Malone, a young reporter who goes on the expedition to impress a girl he likes. He is rather rash and undisciplined at times, though he is far more level-headed than the rest of the party, excepting Lord Roxton.

Doyle achieves not only a truly exciting adventure story, but also a very humerous/insightful study on the relationship between four very different people with conflicting personalities. I always found it most amusing to read about the two professors bickering over what species the creatures which were immediately threatening their lives were, while the other two tried to find a solution to the danger.

Dinosaurs actually play a surprisingly small role in this book, which largely centers upon the journey to the plateau to verify Professor Challanger's claims that he discovered prehistoric life living upon it, and the subsequent danger which they face at the top. This danger largely takes the form of ape-men (compared to the "missing link") who have sub-humanoid intelligence and fully human cruelty. This book is also a rather blatant proponent of Darwinian naturalism, and Doyle's mentioning of the ease of faking a dinosaur bone is thought by many to be evidence that Doyle himself was (at least partly) responsible for the famous Piltdown Man hoax.

In short, this book is an excellent adventure story, though vastly different than the usual adventure, which could be described as "magical." This story defies the term "magical," as it is really very steeped in the scientific mindset which precludes the magical element in most adventure stories of the period. The difference between something like H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and Doyle's The Lost World is staggering. The very essence of the former is magical and significantly shaped by a sense of something beyond nature lurking in the background, while the latter has a more nature-based sense of wonder. In Haggard if the main character senses something watching him the reader's mind assumes that it must be the old witch, who we assume must have supernatural power because of the atmosphere of the book. In Doyle, however, when Malone feels something watching him our minds automatically assume that it is some prehistoric creature. In this sense (the naturalistic wonder as opposed to the fantastic wonder of most adventure stories) Doyle is very similar to his contemporary H.G. Wells. To be quite honest, if I read this book without seeing the author's name, I would have immediately assumed that Wells wrote it, as this book has the same "feel" as one of his books. There is just something in the very nature of the works of the early staunch naturalist writers (and Doyle reflects this, even though he was a spiritist) that has never been replicated since, and it is very present in this book.

Overall grade: A
 
3 Star Rating  "Something nasty in the jungle"
- Reviewed By Anonymous
I thought that "The Lost World" was an entertaining novel, taking the reader back to the glory days of the Empire, when heroes sporting bushy moustaches and eccentric professors with beards dressed in Harris tweeds and armed with little more than a trusty service revolver and hunting rifle, could venture into the most inhospitable wildernessesa and survive.

Professors Challenger and Summerlee, along with Lord John Roxton and the Irish journalist Edward Malone, go on an expedition to the deepest Amazon in an attempt to prove Challenger's claim the prehistoric life had survived there. The rest of the story has been copied and adapted so many times, tha it's not worth going over.

Nonetheless, "The Lost World" is still a good read: Conan Doyle could spin a decent yarn. True, it's very much of its age: the modern reader might feel assaulted by the Social Darwinianism and racial stereotypes which run through it: the only black character is the faithful yet simple "Zambo" (ouch); and the Latin American characters are all treacherous (of course). Even Malone, being Irish, is not exempt from this kind of stuff.

I was struck also by the violence permeating the novel. Challenger brawls with or threatens everyone who disagrees with him, the explorers decimate every living thing around them (hunting trophies being sought assidously), fights break out at scientific meetings, and the expedition members participate eagerly in a battle which is justified by the "survival of the fittest" mantra. No doubt we live in violent times at the moment, but if this is any representation of times past (albeit it is only a work of fiction) our ancesters seemed to be squabbling and brawling their way towards World War One!

G Rodgers

 
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