The Lost World (Doyle novel)
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The Lost World is an adventure and science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounting an expedition to a remote plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where dinosaurs and
Cover of the first edition of The Lost World
Frontispiece photo from the 1912 edition of The Lost World, showing the fictional members of the expedition, left to right: E. D. Malone; Professor Summerlee; Professor G. E. Challenger; Lord John Roxton (Challenger was impersonated by Conan Doyle himself)
Maple White's sketch of a living Stegosaurus
View of the plateau that isolates the lost world
Professor Challenger
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George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Doyle's self-controlled, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, P
The Lost World (Doyle novel)
…survive, along with a tribe of vicious ape-like creatures that are in conflict with a group of indigenous Indians. The work introduces the character of Professor Challenger, who leads the expedition (and who would appear in later Conan Doyle stories), and is narrated in the first person by the journalist member (Edward…
Professor Challenger (seated) as illustrated by Harry Rountree in Arthur Conan Doyle's novella The Poison Belt in The Strand Magazine
Wallace Beery as Challenger in the film version of The Lost World (1925)