Professor Challenger, an eccentric scientist of infamously bad temperament, returns from South America with stories of a distant land inhabited by prehistoric wildlife. A young journalist named Ned Malone sets out to test the claims of Challenger, together with a skeptical scientist and a swashbuckling explorer. What follows is a remarkable fantasy adventure filled with the unexpected and the outrageous.

This story, originally published in The Strand Magazine in serialised form, was the first appearance of Professor Challenger, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most entertaining characters.

This unabridged edition of The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle includes:

~ Annotations

~ An introductory note by the editor

~ A brief biography of the author

The body of this edition's text has not been abridged and is true to the form it took in 1912. All contributions by the editor are intended to make the book more accessible to the modern reader without resorting to alteration.