This lost world holds great danger for the explorers either from the terrifying prehistoric creatures or the fiendish ape-men who inhabit the plateau. A scientific expedition sets out to explore a mysterious plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The author told his editor, ‘My ambition is to do for the boy’s book what Sherlock Holmes did for the detective tale.’ Anyone who had read this gripping novel would have to agree that Doyle achieved his ambition.Īs with all such stories, the plot is both highly original and yet simple.
Rider Haggard’s dedication to King Solomon’s Mines – ‘to all the big and little boys who read it’.ĭoyle’s sentiments are most apt for this most exciting boy’s own tale which is a fine mixture of science fiction and rousing adventure. In dedication to his novel, The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: ‘The ordinary laws of adventure are suspended… Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.’ The Lost World David Stuart Davies explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world of prehistoric beasts.
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