The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. The lead character is an eccentric paleontologist Professor Challenger, who struggles to prove the existence of this lost world.

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Foreword

I: There Are Heroisms All Round Us

II: Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger

III: He Is a Perfectly Impossible Person

IV: It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World

V: Question!

VI: I Was the Flail of the Lord

VII: Tomorrow We Disappear Into the Unknown

VIII: The Outlying Pickets of the New World

IX: Who Could Have Foreseen It?

X: The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened

XI: For Once I Was the Hero

XII: It Was Dreadful in the Forest

XIII: A Sight Which I Shall Never Forget

XIV: Those Were the Real Conquests

XV: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders

XVI: A Procession! A Procession!

The Lost World

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fiction

adventure

science_fiction

fantasy