Illustration of the plateau from the Lost World

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The Lost World is an exploration of a dangerous and exotic place, where prehistoric creatures still thrive. Published in 1912, the book was inspired by H G Wells’s novella The Country of the Blind, 1904, which was also set in a secret South American valley (and which appeared, like much of Doyle’s own work, in the Strand magazine)

The Lost World is a  bold and imaginative account of an expedition to the Amazon Basin, led by Professor Challenger and his companions, where they are mobbed by a cluster of flying pterodactyls and pursued by flesh-eating dinosaurs.

The plateau from the stony plain on the north-east.

A photograph, purportedly by E D Malone, from the American First Edition. It is actually a composite with illustrative elements. A note from Doyle to William Ransford, seems to indicate the author created the image himself in the darkroom. Doyle was an avid amateur photographer