The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle · first published 1900
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Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.
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…I'm pretty sure it was my first exposure to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (and I do recommend it heartily to anyone who hasn't watched it!). Of Doyle's non-Sherlock works, The Lost World is the first that comes to my mind. Great fast read, also highly recommend! (Though nothing beats the full and complete collection of Sherlock Holmes, see [1] for the PDF and [2] for the actual book).…
on “Arthur Conan Doyle and The Strand” ↗Read Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World with this fairy incident in mind and the character of Professor Challenger will make a lot of sense. tl;dr: man mocked by the scientific majority gets completely vindicated.
on “As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)” ↗The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
on “Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?” ↗…environment. People cry about how we're destroying the earth, but they're not actually worried about the earth. They're worried about themselves. It's like how Ian Malcolm comments derisively in The Lost World that humans may not survive, but the earth would be just find. Somewhere some microbes would survive underneath all the dirt blasted everywhere in the apocalypse, and life would start again. I can understand…
on “Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (2012)” ↗This is the premise of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Dinosaurs and other ancient beasts kept isolated in the crater of an ancient volcano, the slopes of which are almost impossible to get over.
on “Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China” ↗…It’s kind of like, in the Nineteenth Century, large parts of the world were still unexplored, so authors like H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle, could write books like King Solomon’s Mines, or The Lost World, and people could sort of believe “it could happen.” These days, we know our world much better. We can call up satellite views of Base Camp, on Mt. Everest. But we are now looking much farther for “it…
on “Mastodon’s eternal September begins?” ↗