The Lost World
An exciting account of a jungle expedition's encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment of the Professor Challenger series, follows an eccentric paleontologist and his companions into...
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An exciting account of a jungle expedition's encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment of the Professor Challenger series, follows an eccentric paleontologist and his companions into the wilds of the Amazon, where they discover iguanodons, pterodactyls, and savage ape-people.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486400600 (0486400603)
ASIN: 486400603
Publish date: January 26th 1998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
An entertaining romp in a lost world. Illustrations from the abridged Ladybird Children's Classic. illustrations
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