The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales

Spurred on by the woman he loves, young journalist Edward Malone eagerly joins forces with irascible Professor Challenger on an expedition to South America. Their mission is to verify Professor Challenger's claim of the existence of a Lost World: a mysterious Jurassic-age plateau untouched by human civilization, which holds the promise of treasure and of terror. In writing The Lost World, Conan Doyle brilliantly succeeded in his aim to 'do for the boy's book what Sherlock Holmes did for the detective's tale'. Also included in this volume are The Poison Belt, an apocalyptic story that reunites Challenger and his team, and two fantasies, 'The Terror of Blue John Gap' and 'The Horror of the Heights'.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and studied medicine. He began writing while he waited for his practice to grow and, with 1887's A Study in Scarlet, created Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous literary characters of all time. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and wrote a book on spiritualism.