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The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales
Spurred on by the woman he loves, young journalist Edward Malone eagerly joins forces with irascible Professor Challenger on an expedition to South America. They are accompanied by Professor Summerlee, keen to expose his old rival as a fraud, and soldier-adventurer Lord John Roxton. Their mission is to verify Challenger's claim of the existence of a mysterious Jurassic-age plateau untouched by human civilization that brings both wonder and terror in the form of prehistoric creatures, from fierce ape-men to grazing iguanodons and rookeries of pterodactyls. The Lost World (1912) is accompanied here by The Poison Belt, a novella that reunites Challenger and his team of explorers in an apocalyptic adventure, and two fantasies, 'The Terror of Blue John Gap' and 'The Horror of the Heights'.
384 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 2001
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Arthur Conan Doyle
15.8k books24.5k followersSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.
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July 26, 2012
As a classic of action/adventure I really enjoyed this novel. However the accompanying short stories were less to my appreciation as they were in no means memorable.
The prose of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is magnificent although I must admit I prefer the style he adopts for his Sherlock Holmes stories. Here again he introduces another character who, like Holmes, is a kind of sociopath in many regards. Which makes me question what that says about the author when he creates memorable and anti-social characters...
The adventure in this story is high class, built up by the incredible use of various words, phrases and descriptions. It appears that Arthur Conan Doyle knows what he's talking about when he refers to various guns, contraptions and environments. Plus his research extends to various scientific theories in both The Lost World and The Poison Belt which were the two enjoyable stories in this short collection.
If you've enjoyed stories such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth then The Lost World would likely be enjoyable to you. You would also likely enjoy it if you appreciate the tales of Sherlock Holmes. However as mentioned the style of writing is slightly different (and less enjoyable) because Doyle writes in a different genre here. Still on the whole this book was very worthwhile reading.
September 14, 2018
The phrase that springs to mind when trying to describe The Lost World is 'of its time'. That is to say that it is sexist, racist and hunting endangered animals is considered heroic. If (gritting your teeth and groaning in horror) you can get past all that and try to enjoy the story, the plot itself is also 'of its time'. Here we have four adventurers who discover an isolated plateau in South America where prehistoric life is abundant. With creatures from completely different eras sharing a home, while the isolation goes some way to explain how they have escaped extinction, it's never clearly explained why they have also escaped evolution, particularly in the case of the ape-men who are supposedly the ancestors of humans. Anyway, the dinosaurs are almost unrecognisable to the post-Jurassic Park audience. These are not the fast, intelligent hunters who can open doors and use decoys to lure their prey, creatures deserving of both our nightmares and respect, no these are the clumsy dumb dinosaurs of the Victorian attitude, creatures too stupid to avoid their own extinction, who while chasing you down will forget you ever existed should you happen to fall down a hole directly in front of them. There's no awe for these creatures, they are ugly and horrible and deserve to be shot and hung on a wall. And that's because, again bafflingly for the modern audience, the dinosaurs aren't the stars of this story, they are mere set-dressing. This story is about ape-men. The concept of the missing link was what would have hooked the Edwardian audience, with ideas of evolution still being relatively new and exciting and a contentious hot-topic for their parents, the lover of the adventure story would have grown up imagining this sort of exciting discovery and find the brutish terror of a club-wielding ancestor to be the height of entertainment, whereas today with evolution mostly taken without a thought, ape-men are dull and giant monsters who can open doors is what we want. Of course, on discovering this race of ape-men, our heroes immediately murder them all, because that's totally morally justified and not a horrendous thing to do.
The other problem facing The Lost World, and a more pressing one because it hasn't its age to excuse it, is that the characters are neither interesting nor likeable. Our narrator is Malone, who in typical Doyle narrator style, has almost no personality at all. He is a vapid vessel here to describe the exploits of the much more interesting men around him. All we know about him is that he is Irish, a journalist, fairly fit, stupidly stubborn and has some creepy opinions about women. Otherwise he's just a blank blob that tells us what is going on. The only reason to have this story narrated is to notch up the peril-level, because if he dies then we don't get the rest of the story, and it makes the threat a little more immediate. Then there's Lord John, who other than being a ridiculous caricature with his 'what ho'ing, only exists to shoot things or passionately want to shoot things. He just loves killing. Considering the story is set in a place with all of the rarest living things in the world, in any other story this character would be a raging villain. But even bland Malone catches his bloodlust. Then we have the professors. Summerlee, the least defined character, is described as being sarcastic and that's all we get. We are only really told about him, rarely seeing him as an actual person, and he only exists for the joke that he and Challenger argue like children all the time. Which brings me to our main guy, Professor Challenger. His whole characterisation is played for laughs, he's a ridiculous over the top madman, but it doesn't change the fact that he's utterly repulsive. He's so arrogant, condescending, rude and unfeeling about other people all of the time that no real person could bear to be anywhere near him. Even the characters in the book only put up with him because he is for the most part right, although we are encouraged to laugh whenever he messes up. What we are left with is characters we are supposed to mock, or characters who are too bland to care about, or characters who are so murderous that you kinda hate them. If they all got eaten by dinosaurs I might actually have enjoyed the story more. But dinosaurs are too stupid and ugly to do anything that interesting.
A further note about this edition. It's a collection of four Conan Doyle stories. When I bought it many years ago, I mistakenly thought it was a collection of all the Professor Challenger stories. Instead it contains the first two Challenger stories (The Lost World and The Poison Belt - which is EVEN MORE RACIST) and then two random short stories about monsters (The Terror Of Blue John Gap and The Horror Of The Heights). Whose idea was this random mishmash? It doesn't make sense. Since the first two stories are Challenger stories, it's annoying that the rest are unconnected. You wouldn't start a collection with two Sherlock Holmes stories and then change randomly to other stories (it should either be all or none, surely). The two short stories at the end are about monsters, so there is a thematic connection to The Lost World, but The Poison Belt isn't about monsters so then why is it here? It's just random to shove these four together like this. Also the cover of the book is from the long-forgotten BBC adaptation which, not only bore very little resemblance to the plot of The Lost World (although can you blame them) also includes two entirely made up characters - on the other hand I see that Challenger was played by Bob Hoskins and it's nice to see him again. I will say that the introduction to the book by Philip Gooden is actually very interesting (I usually hate introductions but if anything I think I enjoyed his essay more than the novel) and he's also added some end notes that readers may find educational.
The other problem facing The Lost World, and a more pressing one because it hasn't its age to excuse it, is that the characters are neither interesting nor likeable. Our narrator is Malone, who in typical Doyle narrator style, has almost no personality at all. He is a vapid vessel here to describe the exploits of the much more interesting men around him. All we know about him is that he is Irish, a journalist, fairly fit, stupidly stubborn and has some creepy opinions about women. Otherwise he's just a blank blob that tells us what is going on. The only reason to have this story narrated is to notch up the peril-level, because if he dies then we don't get the rest of the story, and it makes the threat a little more immediate. Then there's Lord John, who other than being a ridiculous caricature with his 'what ho'ing, only exists to shoot things or passionately want to shoot things. He just loves killing. Considering the story is set in a place with all of the rarest living things in the world, in any other story this character would be a raging villain. But even bland Malone catches his bloodlust. Then we have the professors. Summerlee, the least defined character, is described as being sarcastic and that's all we get. We are only really told about him, rarely seeing him as an actual person, and he only exists for the joke that he and Challenger argue like children all the time. Which brings me to our main guy, Professor Challenger. His whole characterisation is played for laughs, he's a ridiculous over the top madman, but it doesn't change the fact that he's utterly repulsive. He's so arrogant, condescending, rude and unfeeling about other people all of the time that no real person could bear to be anywhere near him. Even the characters in the book only put up with him because he is for the most part right, although we are encouraged to laugh whenever he messes up. What we are left with is characters we are supposed to mock, or characters who are too bland to care about, or characters who are so murderous that you kinda hate them. If they all got eaten by dinosaurs I might actually have enjoyed the story more. But dinosaurs are too stupid and ugly to do anything that interesting.
A further note about this edition. It's a collection of four Conan Doyle stories. When I bought it many years ago, I mistakenly thought it was a collection of all the Professor Challenger stories. Instead it contains the first two Challenger stories (The Lost World and The Poison Belt - which is EVEN MORE RACIST) and then two random short stories about monsters (The Terror Of Blue John Gap and The Horror Of The Heights). Whose idea was this random mishmash? It doesn't make sense. Since the first two stories are Challenger stories, it's annoying that the rest are unconnected. You wouldn't start a collection with two Sherlock Holmes stories and then change randomly to other stories (it should either be all or none, surely). The two short stories at the end are about monsters, so there is a thematic connection to The Lost World, but The Poison Belt isn't about monsters so then why is it here? It's just random to shove these four together like this. Also the cover of the book is from the long-forgotten BBC adaptation which, not only bore very little resemblance to the plot of The Lost World (although can you blame them) also includes two entirely made up characters - on the other hand I see that Challenger was played by Bob Hoskins and it's nice to see him again. I will say that the introduction to the book by Philip Gooden is actually very interesting (I usually hate introductions but if anything I think I enjoyed his essay more than the novel) and he's also added some end notes that readers may find educational.
April 22, 2016
My first encounter with The Lost World came in the form of the 2001 BBC miniseries, starring Bob Hoskins and Matthew Rhys. I loved it instantly. It's full of adventure and silliness and awesome dinosaurs, courtesy of the Walking With Dinosaurs team. And it also features Tom Ward sporting very Hugh Grant hair and a truly hilarious moustache.
So obviously, I decided that I should read the book soon after, and I remember enjoying it. I haven't revisited the book since, though I've seen the miniseries numerous times. So I was somewhat surprised to see this time around how different the book is to the series. The gist of things is the same - a mysterious plateau somewhere in South America where prehistoric life has survived unchecked, and an expedition to confirm its existence. Through a series of unfortunate events, the expedition find themselves trapped on top of the plateau, unable to get down again, and must fight for survival in a world filled with allosaurs, hostile natives, and some kind of missing link between apes and humans.
The story is a LOT of fun, I must say. The biggest change in the miniseries is the addition of Agnes and her religious uncle. I'd totally forgotten that she wasn't in the book, and I was slightly disappointed by her absence because she's pretty great. There were also some relatively minor changes to the ending that weren't as big of a deal for me. Still, there was plenty to entertain, and it's an action packed story.
Sure, there are moments when you're like "Wow, that's kind of racist...", but it's set in 1912, and when it comes to the classics, you just have to shudder over the racism and misogyny and press on regardless. Doyle created some fabulous characters, and while parts of the story - allosaurs hopping like kangaroos and killing their prey by falling over on them - may be more funny than anything, it's an enjoyable and action packed story, topped off nicely with illustrations and photographs.
My volume also contained three other, much shorter stories. The first of these, The Poison Belt, features the same characters as The Lost World. It's fun to see them on another adventure, and The Poison Belt is definitely a fast-paced read. The gist of it is that the earth is passing through a band of ether that's killing every living thing on the planet. Professor Challenger and the others obtain a bunch of oxygen cylinders and lock themselves in a sealed room to see if they can survive it. It's got a very H.G. Wells feel about it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was less taken with The Terror of Blue John Gap, which is a 20 page story in which an invalid goes to the country to take the air and decides to investigate why a bunch of sheep have gone missing, only to find a mysterious cave system inhabited by a giant beastie. It was so short that it felt more like an outline than a fully fleshed out story, and the narrator, James Hardcastle, is kind of a pain.
The final story was very much early fantasy, and though it dragged a bit at times, I thoroughly enjoyed The Horror of the Heights. Written in a time when aviation was just starting to find its feet and was essentially taking over from nineteenth century explorers, it makes perfect sense to set an adventure story up in the sky where who-knows-what could happen. I kind of wish this had been a fully fleshed out novel rather than a short story, but a short story is better than nothing!
If you've read and enjoyed any of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, I'd definitely recommend picking up The Lost World, because it really is a lot of fun. (If you'd prefer the slightly more modern interpretation, I really would recommend the miniseries. It's got some great actors in it, and the changes to the story made it even better)
So obviously, I decided that I should read the book soon after, and I remember enjoying it. I haven't revisited the book since, though I've seen the miniseries numerous times. So I was somewhat surprised to see this time around how different the book is to the series. The gist of things is the same - a mysterious plateau somewhere in South America where prehistoric life has survived unchecked, and an expedition to confirm its existence. Through a series of unfortunate events, the expedition find themselves trapped on top of the plateau, unable to get down again, and must fight for survival in a world filled with allosaurs, hostile natives, and some kind of missing link between apes and humans.
The story is a LOT of fun, I must say. The biggest change in the miniseries is the addition of Agnes and her religious uncle. I'd totally forgotten that she wasn't in the book, and I was slightly disappointed by her absence because she's pretty great. There were also some relatively minor changes to the ending that weren't as big of a deal for me. Still, there was plenty to entertain, and it's an action packed story.
Sure, there are moments when you're like "Wow, that's kind of racist...", but it's set in 1912, and when it comes to the classics, you just have to shudder over the racism and misogyny and press on regardless. Doyle created some fabulous characters, and while parts of the story - allosaurs hopping like kangaroos and killing their prey by falling over on them - may be more funny than anything, it's an enjoyable and action packed story, topped off nicely with illustrations and photographs.
My volume also contained three other, much shorter stories. The first of these, The Poison Belt, features the same characters as The Lost World. It's fun to see them on another adventure, and The Poison Belt is definitely a fast-paced read. The gist of it is that the earth is passing through a band of ether that's killing every living thing on the planet. Professor Challenger and the others obtain a bunch of oxygen cylinders and lock themselves in a sealed room to see if they can survive it. It's got a very H.G. Wells feel about it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was less taken with The Terror of Blue John Gap, which is a 20 page story in which an invalid goes to the country to take the air and decides to investigate why a bunch of sheep have gone missing, only to find a mysterious cave system inhabited by a giant beastie. It was so short that it felt more like an outline than a fully fleshed out story, and the narrator, James Hardcastle, is kind of a pain.
The final story was very much early fantasy, and though it dragged a bit at times, I thoroughly enjoyed The Horror of the Heights. Written in a time when aviation was just starting to find its feet and was essentially taking over from nineteenth century explorers, it makes perfect sense to set an adventure story up in the sky where who-knows-what could happen. I kind of wish this had been a fully fleshed out novel rather than a short story, but a short story is better than nothing!
If you've read and enjoyed any of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, I'd definitely recommend picking up The Lost World, because it really is a lot of fun. (If you'd prefer the slightly more modern interpretation, I really would recommend the miniseries. It's got some great actors in it, and the changes to the story made it even better)
January 13, 2019
The violent racism, sexism, and glorification of colonialism in this book is stunning. Pretty terrible #scicomm. The final third of the book became so bad that I couldn't even distance myself by viewing it as a reflection of its time. I'm not sure I'll be able to enjoy the Sherlock Holmes stories the same way again with the after taste of The Lost World lingering. If you're a Holmes fan, you might want go with ignorance is bliss and avoid this 'classic'.
November 27, 2019
Haven't read this collection since I was maybe 9 years old, but the titular story's been pretty firmly implanted in my brain by the surprisingly strong 2001 BBC movie with Bob Hoskins. The Lost World is DEFINITELY "of its time", particularly with its recurring racism and phrenology, but it's much more interesting to read as an adult. I had forgotten how funny Conan Doyle can be: Professor Challenger's arrogant dialogue, the pettiness of the scientific community (nothing has changed), and the scenes with Challenger and the Ape-King all stand out. A very weird depiction of Allosaurus (hopping around like a kangaroo) was pretty unintentionally funny too. All in all, still a great adventure story. The others in this collection are fine too, but a very ugly eugenics-y subplot in 'The Poison Belt' spoils what could otherwise be a fun reunion with Challenger, Roxton, Summerlee and Malone.
August 22, 2019
OK, so none of these were long stories but for no good reason it took me 10 days to read 300 pages.
The Lost World:
So this is a story about the mad Professor Challenger and his merry team of sceptics who discover, or rather, prove the existence of a large plateau of dinosaurs in the Amazon jungle. Challenger, a well known, somewhat eccentric professor of, well, everything, claims that he has seen dinosaurs and related flora and fauna in the Amazon rainforest. This cannot be! everyone cries. OK then, says he, go and see for yourself! So journalist Edward Malone, Professor Summerlee and Lord John Roxton all set sail to the Americas and trek into the jungle to find, or not find, the dinosaurs. Challenger meets them there, quite unexpectedly, and they all trek into the jungle with the native guides and servants (someone has to carry all the stuff!). After a few days of sailing and walking, they come to an immense cliff, and after some scrambling about, manage to get themselves up on to the top of a tall peninsula which is about 20 feet away from the actual plateau. They chop down a tree to get across, only for the dastardly natives to knock it down once they're over so they can't get back! They are trapped!
They make the use of their time by exploring the plateau. They come across pterodactyls and iguanodons and all sorts of supposedly long dead beasts. They are attacked and only just survive various injuries. Then they come across two different tribes of men living up there, who are deadly enemies and they help the natives defeat the Ape-Men, thanks to their superior weapons - the natives have sticks and stones, our intrepid explorers have elephant guns. There's no comparison really...
Then the natives help them get down off the plateau and they manage to make their way home eventually, where they give a talk back in London about all that they have seen. They are scoffed at by well learned men, until Challenger opens his basket and a pterodactyl pops out. Everyone is amazed (and convinced) - hurrah! Except, the window is open and the pterodactyl flies out and across London... awkward much?!
The men are vindicated and Ed Malone, who is our narrator for the story, runs to tell his would-be girlfriend (she is the reason he went in the first place) that he did it! He has been adventurous and is a man worth being with. Only when he gets there, she's married some mousy nobody in his absence. Stupid cow.
I don't know why this took me so long to read, but I really enjoyed it!
The Poison Belt:
This was a weird short story. Same characters as before, they are all meeting up at Challenger's country pad on the anniversary (3 years later?) of their trip to the dinosaurs. There are strange reports in the papers of people collapsing, people acting strange in different countries, and then Malone, Summerlee and Lord John all get telegrams from Challenger telling them to bring oxygen tubes with them when they visit. They are all confused but do so.
They rock up to Challenger's house and he tells them that the earth is passing through a belt of poison which is basically making everyone go mad, and then will kill them, because everyone is breathing it in. He takes everyone inside and seals up the drawing room, and they spend the night eking out the oxygen trying to stay alive. The following morning, as the oxygen runs out, they discover that the worst has passed and they can breathe the air again. They go outside, but sadly everyone is dead. They take the car and drive to London, passing people literally piled up on the pavement, dead as dodos. After realising that they are probably the last people left alive, they go back to Challenger's house to try and work out what to do. Only once they get back, they see people coming back to life! The poison slowed their heartbeats or something down to next to nothing, but not quite enough to kill them completely. Only they don't remember anything, and they carry on as if 24 hours haven't passed at all.
This was a bit weird, but kind of good fun at the same time. Somehow this was more unbelievable than the dinosaur story.
The other two stories were only a few pages each and nothing very impressive (not enough to stay with me long enough to write a review!)
Quite enjoyed it as a whole, and really glad to have read The Lost World, as it's one of those stories everyone knows, but actually doesn't.
4 stars all in.
The Lost World:
So this is a story about the mad Professor Challenger and his merry team of sceptics who discover, or rather, prove the existence of a large plateau of dinosaurs in the Amazon jungle. Challenger, a well known, somewhat eccentric professor of, well, everything, claims that he has seen dinosaurs and related flora and fauna in the Amazon rainforest. This cannot be! everyone cries. OK then, says he, go and see for yourself! So journalist Edward Malone, Professor Summerlee and Lord John Roxton all set sail to the Americas and trek into the jungle to find, or not find, the dinosaurs. Challenger meets them there, quite unexpectedly, and they all trek into the jungle with the native guides and servants (someone has to carry all the stuff!). After a few days of sailing and walking, they come to an immense cliff, and after some scrambling about, manage to get themselves up on to the top of a tall peninsula which is about 20 feet away from the actual plateau. They chop down a tree to get across, only for the dastardly natives to knock it down once they're over so they can't get back! They are trapped!
They make the use of their time by exploring the plateau. They come across pterodactyls and iguanodons and all sorts of supposedly long dead beasts. They are attacked and only just survive various injuries. Then they come across two different tribes of men living up there, who are deadly enemies and they help the natives defeat the Ape-Men, thanks to their superior weapons - the natives have sticks and stones, our intrepid explorers have elephant guns. There's no comparison really...
Then the natives help them get down off the plateau and they manage to make their way home eventually, where they give a talk back in London about all that they have seen. They are scoffed at by well learned men, until Challenger opens his basket and a pterodactyl pops out. Everyone is amazed (and convinced) - hurrah! Except, the window is open and the pterodactyl flies out and across London... awkward much?!
The men are vindicated and Ed Malone, who is our narrator for the story, runs to tell his would-be girlfriend (she is the reason he went in the first place) that he did it! He has been adventurous and is a man worth being with. Only when he gets there, she's married some mousy nobody in his absence. Stupid cow.
I don't know why this took me so long to read, but I really enjoyed it!
The Poison Belt:
This was a weird short story. Same characters as before, they are all meeting up at Challenger's country pad on the anniversary (3 years later?) of their trip to the dinosaurs. There are strange reports in the papers of people collapsing, people acting strange in different countries, and then Malone, Summerlee and Lord John all get telegrams from Challenger telling them to bring oxygen tubes with them when they visit. They are all confused but do so.
They rock up to Challenger's house and he tells them that the earth is passing through a belt of poison which is basically making everyone go mad, and then will kill them, because everyone is breathing it in. He takes everyone inside and seals up the drawing room, and they spend the night eking out the oxygen trying to stay alive. The following morning, as the oxygen runs out, they discover that the worst has passed and they can breathe the air again. They go outside, but sadly everyone is dead. They take the car and drive to London, passing people literally piled up on the pavement, dead as dodos. After realising that they are probably the last people left alive, they go back to Challenger's house to try and work out what to do. Only once they get back, they see people coming back to life! The poison slowed their heartbeats or something down to next to nothing, but not quite enough to kill them completely. Only they don't remember anything, and they carry on as if 24 hours haven't passed at all.
This was a bit weird, but kind of good fun at the same time. Somehow this was more unbelievable than the dinosaur story.
The other two stories were only a few pages each and nothing very impressive (not enough to stay with me long enough to write a review!)
Quite enjoyed it as a whole, and really glad to have read The Lost World, as it's one of those stories everyone knows, but actually doesn't.
4 stars all in.
February 3, 2017
Best novel from Conan Doyle that I have read. A spectacularly exciting blend of science fiction and fact. Genuinely impressed by the authenticity and depth of his depiction of events. The inclusion of The Poison Belt as an apocalyptic blockbuster, along with two short stories, is a nice bonus.
February 7, 2020
It never gets old.
April 23, 2021
I only read The Lost World. I couldn’t stomach any more.
May 20, 2025
A book of short stories with The Lost World taking centre stage.
All stories were enjoyable, however the narrative is dated, as to be expected, but the premise of all 4 stories was enjoyable
All stories were enjoyable, however the narrative is dated, as to be expected, but the premise of all 4 stories was enjoyable
December 17, 2007
This is a classic adventure story. I heartily enjoyed it.
The two "other trilling tales" are good as well.
I enjoyed puzzling over whether archeologists of the 1900's really had wacky ideas about dinosaurs, or if Doyle was just being creative.
Unfortunetly but not unexpectedly for a book published in 1912,
several of the minor characters are racial stereotypes. This doesn't detract from the book too much, since the characters are very minor.
The two "other trilling tales" are good as well.
I enjoyed puzzling over whether archeologists of the 1900's really had wacky ideas about dinosaurs, or if Doyle was just being creative.
Unfortunetly but not unexpectedly for a book published in 1912,
several of the minor characters are racial stereotypes. This doesn't detract from the book too much, since the characters are very minor.
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