The Lost World

The creator of Sherlock Holmes dabbled in many other genres including science fiction, and in this 1912 fantasy he transported readers to the wilds of the Amazon for a rollicking adventure among dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The Lost World is the first and best of Arthur Conan Doyle's five stories about the eccentric paleontologist Professor Challenger. This splendid hardcover edition reprints the tale as it first appeared in The Strand Magazine and includes the original brush-and-wash illustrations by Golden Age masters Harry Rountree. Doyle, using his Maple White alias, provides artwork as well. 

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a prolific writer born in Scotland who started out as a medical doctor. While at the University of Edinburgh, he augmented his income by writing stories. His first Sherlock Holmes tale was published in 1887, introducing one of literature's best-loved detectives. Doyle has also written many works of history and science fiction, plus plays and poetry.New Zealand native Harry Rountree (1878–1950) emigrated to England where he made his fortune as an illustrator of books and magazines such as Little Folks and Punch.

I. There Are Heroisms All Round UsII. Try Your Luck with Professor ChallengerIII. He Is a Perfectly Impossible PersonIV. It's Just the Very Biggest Thing in the WorldV. Question!VI. I Was the Flail of the LordVII. To-morrow We Disappear Into the UnknownVIII. The Outlying Pickets of the New WorldIX. Who Could Have Foreseen It?X. The Most Wonderful Things Have HappenedXI. For Once I Was the HeroXII. It Was Dreadful in the ForestXIII. A Sight Which I Shall Never ForgetXIV. Those Were the Real ConquestsXV. Our Eyes Have Seen Great WondersXVI. A Procession! A Procession!