The Lost World - Dover Thrift Editions Author:Arthur Conan Doyle An exciting account of a jungle expedition’s encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment of the Professor Challenger series, follows an eccentric paleontologist and his companions into the wilds of the Amazon, where they dis... more »cover iguanodons, pterodactyls, and savage ape-people.« less