![]() The Lost World (1912) was a classic novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Braving superstitious natives, they make it to the plateau and indeed discover it to be filled with dinosaurs. They are joined along the way by Agnes Cluny, who has grown up her entire life in the jungle, and her uncle, the missionary Theo Kerr who condemns the idea of dinosaurs as being of the devil. Summerlee agrees to join the expedition, as does the dashing explorer Lord John Roxton and Edward Malone, an ambitious young reporter for The Gazette who is looking for a good story. He proposes a return expedition to the Amazon to find more evidence. ![]() He creates an uproar when he produces what he claims is the bone of a pterodactyl wing. ![]() ![]() Professor George Challenger interrupts a lecture by Professor Summerlee at the Natural History Museum in London to claim he has evidence that dinosaurs still exist. ![]()
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