Series Foreword vii
Introduction xiii
Conor Reid
The Lost World 1
Foreword 3
I There Are Heroisms All Round Us 5
II Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger 13
III He is a Perfectly Impossible Person 23
IV It's Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World 33
V Question! 55
VI I Was the Flail of the Lord 73
VII To-morrow We Disappear into the Unknown 85
VIII The Outlying Pickets of the New World 99
IX Who Could Have Foreseen It? 117
X The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened 147
XI For Once I Was the Hero 165
XII It was Dreadful in the Forest 187
XIII A Sight I Shall Never Forget 207
XIV Those Were the Real Conquests 227
XV Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders 247
XVI A Procession! A Procession! 269
The Poison Belt 293
I The Blurring of Lines 295
II The Tide of Death 317
III Submerged 339
IV A Diary of the Dying 359
V The Dead World 375
VI The Great Awakening 395
Afterword: Challengers of the Known 409
Joshua Glenn

"Having assembled a crew of adventurers, the brilliant, blustering physiologist and physicist Professor Challenger journeys to a South American jungle ... in search of a lost plateau crawling with iguanodons. It's a ripping yarn-the first popular dinosaurs-still-live tale, prototype for everything from King Kong to Jurassic Park. At the same time, however, it's a philosophical novel, one that animates-in a thrilling, humorous fashion-the author's obsessive drive (also seen in his Sherlock Holmes stories) to reconcile the claims of logical reason and intuition. In their second adventure, Challenger et al. discover that the planet is about to pass through a belt of poisonous ether which will destroy all life on Earth. However, Challenger has transformed his wife's dressing room into an airtight chamber, so they can witness the end of the world. An epistemological thriller"--

Arthur Conan Doyle; introduction by Conor Reid; afterword by Joshua Glenn