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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
  
Professor Challenger leads an expedition - which includes a journalist, an adventurer, and an aristocrat - into the deepest jungles of South America in search of the rumored country of dinosaurs.
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The Lost World, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novels, is the story of a four man expedition to a remote plateau in South America, cut off from the surrounding  country by unscaleable perpindicular cliffs.
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Here strange creatures long extinct in the outside world have survived from prehistoric times - the huge pterodactyl, half bat, half bird; the reptile-headed iguanodon, forty feet high; the terrifying carnivorous dinosaur; and the horrible ape-men.
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The adventures of Professors Challenger and Summerlee, Lord John Roxton and the journalist Malone are breathlessly exciting, and lead up to the climax of their return to the outside world to confound their sceptical critics.
  
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==

Latest revision as of 19:24, 1 November 2012

1953 US Edition
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher Harlequin Romance #238
Release Month 1953 (US)
Harlequin Romance Series #
Preceded by Island Of Escape
Followed by Mission Of Revenge

Book Description

The Lost World, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novels, is the story of a four man expedition to a remote plateau in South America, cut off from the surrounding country by unscaleable perpindicular cliffs.

Here strange creatures long extinct in the outside world have survived from prehistoric times - the huge pterodactyl, half bat, half bird; the reptile-headed iguanodon, forty feet high; the terrifying carnivorous dinosaur; and the horrible ape-men.

The adventures of Professors Challenger and Summerlee, Lord John Roxton and the journalist Malone are breathlessly exciting, and lead up to the climax of their return to the outside world to confound their sceptical critics.

Cover Variation (By Release Date)

1953 <br\>US Edition