Arthur Conan Doyle 4 hr 24 min read

'There are heroisms all round us': reporter Ed Malone joins the ferocious Professor Challenger's expedition to a South American plateau where the dinosaurs never died.

Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel is the foundational classic of the lost-world adventure. Thrilling, funny, endlessly influential. Read it for the immortal original, the roaring Professor Challenger, a plateau of living dinosaurs and ape-men, and the template for every lost-world tale that followed, by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 24 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).