See also: Le Monde lost
Le Monde lost ( The lost world ) is a Romance of Science-fiction, written in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle, describing the adventures of an scientific exhibition, on a plate isolated from South America, still populated prehistoric animals.
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
Adaptations
It was adapted to the Cinéma on several occasions:
Michael Crichton was inspired some to write
Jurassic Park .
See too
Internal bonds