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The lost world : being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. Ed Malone of the Daily Gazette

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: London : Puffin, 1981.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger-a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction-Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, "the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended" and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. Just as Sherlock Holmes  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Fantasy fiction
Named Person: George Edward Challenger, (Fictitious character); George Edward Challenger, (Fictitious character)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 0140367489 9780140367485
OCLC Number: 33164204
Description: 280 pages
Responsibility: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; illustrated by Ian Newsham.

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Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into  Read more...

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<http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/vocabulary\/countries\/enk<\/a>>\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Place<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\ndcterms:identifier<\/a> \"enk<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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