Le Monde lost (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Synopsis

Professor Challenger passes for a liar near all the inhabitants of London since he tells to know the existence of prehistoric animals in a corner lost (and indefinable on a chart) of Amazonia. However, Ned Malone, an intrepid journalist, seems to think the opposite. He is not the first journalist to have tried to tear off an interview of mysterious and Challenger violent one, but the first to have obtained one of them! Then, they become friendly. Later, during a conference, they assemble a forwarding with other adventurers to leave to explore and to have evidence that the lost world exists indeed…

Summary

Professor Challenger, so famous zoologist that irascible, returned from a forwarding to South America with a strange story - that nobody believes - and of odd photographs, that everyone thinks faked. It would have discovered, on a plate isolated from the remainder of Amazonia by vertiginous escarpments, a populated world of a fauna unknown factor of science and going back to the first ages Jurassic!

To confuse its detractors, it tries one second forwarding to which joint a young journalist who seeks the adventure to shine with the eyes of that he likes… and which will find beyond its hopes: Not only all them prehistoric animals described by professor Challenger exist, but our explorers will meet also them frightening man-monkeys… Prehistory did not die, but will succeed in they regaining London alive for in to testify and, especially, they be believed will?

Chapters

There are Heroisms all Round Custom
Try your Luck with Professor Challenger
He has Perfectly Impossible Persson
It' S Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World
Question!
I was the Flail off the Lord
Tomorrow we Disappear into the Unknown
The Outlying Pickets off the New World
Who Could Cuts Foreseen It?
The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened
For Once I was the Hero
It was Dreadful in the Forest
has Sight I Shall Never Forget
Those were the Real Conquests
Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders
has Procession! With Procession!

Characters

Professor Challenger - Scientific proud and coleric who remains in spite of very brilliant.
Ned Malone - 23 year old Journalist who will follow Challenger and his friends in the lost world.
McArdle - the editor of Malone.C' has him that Ned made his account returned day passed on the island.
Professor Summerlee - Scientific and rival of Challenger.
Lord John Roxton - Adventurous of famous and large hunter. It is charged to take care on the team of professor Challenger and to provide them resources and food. He carries a moustache.
Gum - Brother of a merchant of slave killed by Roxton.
Zambo - American southern black Guide the favorite of the team of Challenger: it is the only bond with the extrior on the island.
Gladys - the woman with which Ned Malone is in love.
Maple White - Exploring missing in the lost world, it is him which reveals the existence of this one via a chart.

Anecdotes

Arthur Conan Doyle would have taken as a starting point a report of Robert Hermann Schomburgk, celebrates exploring of South America, on the Tepuy Roraima, also named Monte Roraima.

Bestiary

Megalosaurus
Iguanodon
Dimorphodon
Glyptodon
Megaloceros
Ichtyosaure
Plésiosaure
Phorusrhacos
Toxodon
a Snake not identified of 50 feet length
a Mammalian not identified phosphorescent
Of the Man S Monkey S
Of the Tick S of the size of a grape
large Mite S

Adaptations

It was adapted to the Cinéma on several occasions:

in 1925 by Harry O. Hoyt: to see Le Monde lost;
in 1960 by Irwin Allen;
in 1998 by Bob Keen;
in 2001 by Stuart Elm; to see Adventurers of the world lost;

Michael Crichton was inspired some to write Jurassic Park .

See too

Internal bonds

Professor Challenger, universe of fiction.

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