I don't think it is a coincidence that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core came out less than two years later in All-Story Weekly.ĭoyle is at his peak in this novel. They engage in a genocidal war with a group of ape-men who are at war with a tribe of Indians.
Phorusrhacos, the terror bird, is present Megaloceros (the “Irish Elk”), and a giant armadillo, the Glyptodon, make an appearance. They find a land inhabited by dinosaurs including a theropod, pterosaurs of a nasty nature, stegosaurus, an iguanodon, and plesiosaurus in a lake in the center of the plateau. They have a difficult time getting on the plateau. Professor Challenger, a loud and exuberant scientist, the reporter Edward Malone, Summerlee, Challenger's rival, and Lord John Roxton travel to an isolated plateau near the Brazil-Peru border. Fawcett had described a plateau on the Brazil-Bolivia border and tracks of unknown origin. The genesis of the novel stemmed from a talk given by Col. Its first publication was in The Strand magazine, which serialized the novel monthly from April to November 1912.
The Lost World is a classic adventure novel. He had the Hodder & Stoughton edition from 1912. Howard mentioned in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith that he bought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World in June 1923.
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