The Lost World

So accustomed are we to numerous cinematic films depicting Dinosaurs (resurrected from their extinction through various dramatic devices) running amok amongst the human race, from King Kong to Jurassic Park, that we forget that it was the creator of Sherlock Holmes who was amongst the first to imagine such a scenario.

After so many years of the cerebral Holmes, Conan Doyle must have revelled in his colourful new character of Professor Challenger. He is a bear of a man with an appetite for self-advancement, adventure and controversy who leads an expedition into the forests of South America to vindicate his claim that a lost world lay hidden in that vast continent.

This is Conan Doyle away from the constraints of Baker Street and one gets the feeling that the author makes the most of the possibilities, pitting his heroes against dinosaurs, treacherous guides, inhospitable terrain and not least a race of vicious ape men.

Conan tells his rip-roaring adventure with all his usual descriptive skill and verve.

1. Opening Credits
2. Chapter 1: There Are Heroisms All Around Us
3. Chapter 2: Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger
4. Chapter 3: He Is a Perfectly Impossible Person
5. Chapter 4: It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World
6. Chapter 5: Question!
7. Chapter 6: I Was the Flail of the Lord
8. Chapter 7: To-Morrow We Disappear into the Unknown
9. Chapter 8: The Outlying Pickets of the New World
10. Chapter 9: Who Could Have Foreseen It?
11. Chapter 10: The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened
12. Chapter 11: For Once I Was the Hero
13. Chapter 12: It Was Dreadful in the Forest
14. Chapter 13: A Sight Which I Shall Never Forget
15. Chapter 14: Those Were the Real Conquests
16. Chapter 15: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders
17. Chapter 16: A Procession! A Procession!
18. Closing Credits