Professor Challenger

"The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big-game hunter and a journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. "The Lost World" is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure that has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest science-fiction stories ever written.

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series.

A dangerous expedition into the Amazon Basin reveals a land of living dinosaurs in this classic science fiction novel by the creator of Sherlock Holmes. When Professor Challenger, a famous paleontologist, reports that he has discovered dinosaurs living on a remote plateau in South America, he is met with ridicule from the scientific community, particularly his rival, Professor Summerlee. With the help of a young reporter and an experienced adventurer, the two academics make a return trip to the Amazon Basin in order to verify Challenger's claims. But what they encounter there is more incredible-and dangerous-than anyone thought possible. Successfully reaching the remote plateau Challenger described, the expedition team is soon trapped in a land of pterodactyl attacks and dangerous tribes of ape men. Their findings will turn the scientific world on its head . . . if only they can get out alive.

We follow Professor Challenger to a South American plateau in the Amazon basin where dinosaurs and other extinct creatures still survive. A legendary work of science fiction which sparked the Lost World genre.

Arthur Conan Doyle's tale of an expedition to a hidden Amazonian plateau where prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs still survive has thrilled readers around the world for almost 100 years. This book introduces his second most famous creation (after, of course, Sherlock Holmes): intrepid explorer Professor Challenger.

Follow Professor Challenger on his expedition to the Tepuyes plateau in South America where prehistoric animals and other extinct creatures still roam -- side by side with prehistoric men and vicious ape-like creatures!

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World follows a paleontologist and his companions-including Professor Challenger, in his first of many appearances in Doyle's books-into the Amazon jungle where they encounter living dinosaurs, including iguanodons, stegosauruses, pterodactyls, and more. Written with the same wit and style as Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, The Lost World is an exciting and original tale that served as inspiration for Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, both of which were memorably adapted into feature films directed by Steven Spielberg. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Nests of pterodactyls, hordes of iguanadons, swarms of plesiosaurs still roaming the earth in the twentieth century? Professor Challenger says yes and to prove it he leads an expedition into the deepest jungles of South America. Together, the men-a young journalist, an adventurer, and an aristocrat-along with their bearers and guides, search for the rumored country and encounter savagery, hardship, and betrayal on the way. But, things only get worse as they get closer to the hidden world they seek. Trapped on an isolated plateau, menaced by hungry carnosaurs, it begins to look as though the expedition will never return from...The Lost World.

The restless, questing intellect of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spurred him far beyond the ingenious puzzles he constructed for Sherlock Holmes. In The Lost World, Doyle, a devotee of the occult and fantastic tales of adventure and discovery, introduces his readers to Professor Challenger, an eccentric paleontologist, on his suspense-filled search for prehistoric creatures in the wilds of the Amazon. Professor Challenger's doughty troupe includes a skeptical colleague, Professor Summerlee; the cool-headed, plucky sportsman Lord John Roxton; and the narrator, the intrepid reporter Edward Malone. When their bridge to civilization collapses, the explorers find themselves marooned among dinosaurs and savage ape-people. Originally published in 1912, this imaginative fantasy unfolds with humor and good-natured satirical eye for pedantry. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle will delight in this rare gem, as will dinosaur fanciers and adventure story aficionados.

The Poison Belt stands as one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's finest stories. A first-rate sequel to The Lost World, this novel continues the adventures of one of the most memorable characters in speculative fiction. Brilliant, witty, insufferable, and blessed with a booming voice and a huge black beard, Professor George Challenger is an eccentric and able champion of the human race.

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1826 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who was to eventually make Conan Doyle's reputation. A prolific writer, Conan Doyle continued to produce a range of fictional works over the following years. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series.

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series.

A menacing new technology falls into the wrong hands in this sci-fi short story by the author of The Lost World and the Sherlock Holmes series. The pugnacious Professor Challenger is approached by his journalist friend Malone with a chilling tale of a dangerous new invention. An eccentric scientist claims to have built a machine capable of disintegrating objects and recreating them elsewhere. Challenger and Malone soon discover that the so-called Disintegration Machine is frighteningly real, and its potential for destruction is immense. So when they learn the inventor has just sold his technology to a foreign government, they must act fast to save the world.

What would you do if you had discovered that the planet was about to be engulfed in a belt of poisonous 'ether' from outer space? Professor Challenger invites a hand-picked crew of adventurers and scientists to his home outside London, which has been fortified with several hours' worth of oxygen. Challenger & Co. assemble in front of a picture window to witness the end of all life on the planet. As birds plummet from the sky, trains crash, and men and women topple over before their horrified gaze, they debate everything from the possibilities of the universe to the 'abysses that lie upon either side of our material existence.'

One of Doyle's novels about the exploits of the intrepid Professor Challenger, this book was heavily influenced by the beliefs of Spiritualism, which Doyle became interested in after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in the First World War.

The Lost World is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big game hunter, and a journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. The Lost World is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure, which has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest science fiction stories ever written.