A pretty good book, sir arthur did a nice job with one of his lesser known books. ( )

Pure pleasure. No tedium. Wonderful, entertaining read. ( )

Acquired via BookCrossing 03 Jul 2009 - in Uncon goody bag

I'd passed on lots of copies of this via BookCrossing as I picked up a small pile at the Unconvention, so I thought I'd better actually read a copy! This was ideal for a plane and coach journey on holiday. Shorter than I'd expected and the adventure does end a little abruptly, but what a great adventure, with dinosaurs, more exciting creatures and stiff upper lips all round. A smattering of colonialism and old fashioned attitudes, but also a good, old-fashioned gripping read. Particuarly liked the scene near the end with mayhem in Oxford Street! ( )

I'd read Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and had no idea that he was the author of this one until I stumbled across it on DailyLit. Very entertaining and fun, with the usual pitfalls of some unfortuante racist language due to the time in which it was written. Doyle knows how to tell a clean story without using extra words, even when he was world-building. Good stuff. ( )

The first, I think, non-Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle book I have read and I was not disappointed even without Dr Watson narrating the story. It is a fast paced old fashioned ripping yarn of an adventure story of one scientist out to prove to the world that his theories of finding prehistoric animals on a plateau not yet visited by man (or at least western man with cameras and notebooks) are not a load of 'poppycock'.
Full of larger than life characters this book is narrated by the journalist Edward Malone who, to prove his adventurous spirit to the woman he loves, convinces Professor Challenger to take him along on a journey to South America to prove his claims of a 'Lost World' are true. Together with another scientist, Professor Summerlee, and an altogether more-english than English adventurer Lord John Roxton they find the plateau, their proof and trouble as they escape death from dinosaurs, capture, execution and finally escape.
A great story and the start of of a series of books starring the great, intelligent, agressive and short tempered Professor Challenger. I will definitely be looking out for the next books starring him. ( )