The Lost World

No. 30 in Mavenhill Classics, this annotated edition presents Arthur Conan Doyle’s great adventure novel of a prehistoric world hidden in the Amazon, with a foreword by A.M. Khalifa and clear chapter-by-chapter summaries.

Professor George Edward Challenger has returned from South America with a dead man’s sketchbook, a strange bone and an astonishing claim: that creatures from the age of the dinosaurs still live on a remote plateau deep in the jungle. London laughs at him. So he dares his critics to go and see for themselves.

A skeptical professor, a famous big-game hunter and a young reporter desperate to prove himself to the woman he loves set out with Challenger into unmapped country. What they find at the top of the cliffs will test their courage, their science and their friendship, and if they ever make it home, no one will believe them without proof.

Witty, thrilling and endlessly inventive, The Lost World introduced one of Doyle’s greatest characters and inspired more than a century of adventure stories.