Bluff the Impostor: When Malone is trying to gain Professor Challenger's trust by pretending to be a fellow scientist, Challenger quizzes him on various scientific terms, all of which Malone claims to be familiar with.Big Ol' Eyebrows: Challenger is described as having monstrously bushy eyebrows.Avenging the Villain: The expedition's treacherous guide Gomez wants to kill Roxton in order to avenge notorious slave trader Pedro Lopez, who was Gomez's brother.

Challenger and Summerlee theorise that the ancestors of all those creatures must have been simply stranded in this remote area by chance through the ages.

Anachronism Stew: The plateau is populated by otherwise extinct animals from various different eras of the past, ranging from Living Dinosaurs (themselves from different periods) to Pleistocenic megafauna and early hominids.

There's also Malone's friend Tarp Henry, a bacteriologist who dismisses Challenger as a huckster just looking for attention. He comes around halfway through the novel once they actually get to the lost world.

Chief among them is Professor Summerlee, who is Challenger's most ardent detractor and believes him to be nothing more than a fraud.

Adventurer Archaeologist: Professor Challenger is an Adventure Paelaeontologist, who goes off into the depths of the Amazon jungle to find dinosaurs.

She marries someone else (a solicitor's clerk!) while the expedition is away.

Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Ned Malone is rejected by the girl he loves because he's never done anything adventurous, so he joins the Challenger expedition to prove himself.

Inspired a bunch of films and TV series, including a 1925 film adaptation that featured groundbreaking Stop Motion animation and was a Trope Maker for movies about dinosaurs, as well as the television series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and The Lost World (2001).įollowed by two sequels: The Poison Belt and The Land of Mist.

They soon find Professor Challenger's lost world, an isolated plateau inhabited by dinosaurs, primitive humans, and savage ape-men, but when the bridge back to the outer world collapses, their journey of discovery becomes a fight for survival. He sets off on an expedition to prove his find, accompanied by a skeptical colleague, Professor Summerlee the cool-headed sportsman Lord John Roxton and the narrator, young reporter Edward Malone. Pugnacious Professor Challenger claims that he's found a place in the Amazon cut off from the rest of the world and housing all kinds of species previously believed to be extinct. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle moved from detective stories to more fanciful fare with this 1912 novel of adventure and discovery. For the Jurassic Park novel, see The Lost World (1995).

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