The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine during the months of April 1912-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between Native Americans and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures | The Lost World By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE COPYRIGHT 1912 Prepared and Published by Ebd Foreword Mr. E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger who being satisfied that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an offensive spirit has guaranteed that he will place no impediment to its publication and circulation. Ebd CHAPTER I There Are Heroisms All Round Us Mr. Hungerton her father really was the most tactless person upon earth a fluffy feathery untidy cockatoo of a man perfectly good-natured but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys it would have been the thought of such a father-inlaw. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority. For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good the token value of silver the depreciation of the rupee and the true standards of exchange. Suppose he cried with feeble violence that all the debts in the world were called up simultaneously and immediate payment insisted upon what under our present conditions would happen then I gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man upon which he jumped from his chair reproved me for my habitual levity which made it impossible for him .
