Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle

Harlequin no.238

The LOST WORLD, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novels, is the story of a four man expidition to a remote plateau in South America, cutt off from the surrounding country by unscaleable perpendicular cliffs.

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

The adventures of Professor 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.