The Lost World

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger&;a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction&;Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, &;the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended&; and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. &;Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard&;and in some sense established the formula&;for the detective story . . . , so too has The Lost World set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . . ,&; Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. &;The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in The Lost World have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day.&;

Pagina's: 272, Editie: Illustrated, Paperback, Modern Library