Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost Word”.
When Professor Challenger and his party left England to explore an uncharted region of South America, they saw nothing but green mountains and savanna, strange ruins and terrors, all part of the narrative journey that promised a fantastic meeting with creatures that seemed to have vanished long ago from the Earth. That journey took them to a cavern with an underground lake and some stalactites. Here they found hidden chambers, cave paintings and a stone door that led to another world that was both new and breathtaking. They found themselves in a prehistoric time when dinosaurs and predatory animals, old and famous from popular mythology, roamed the valleys. Some of them, such as Carcharodons, abominable algae, and griffins were more dangerous and evolved than we imagined. Their courtship for a long time gave rise only in one person who liked each creature that lived in “the lost world”. The main leader, a researcher who was always eager to explore the remote corners of this planet, decided to return to civilization since he became convinced that the ancient world – does not exist and is only a fantasy, unknown to reality. However, he realized that he was wrong about this after a while: he caught a small baby brontosaurus and discovered that the inhabitants of the last non-human world so closely resemble his cousin, whom we soon find out about the fate – "the dinosaur" wandered on the plane alone, something terrible happened to his foot that made him tired enough to resist – the character got an infection, was hampered in motion and often accidentally injured.
Электронная Книга «The Lost Word (English Edition)» написана автором Arthur Conan Doyle в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9783746781198
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"I stood like a man paralyzed, still staring at the ground which I had traversed. Then suddenly I saw it. There was movement among the bushes at the far end of the clearing which I had just traversed. A great dark shadow disengaged itself and hopped out into the clear moonlight. I say «hopped» advisedly, for the beast moved like a kangaroo, springing along in an erect position upon its powerful hind legs, while its front ones were held bent in front of it. It was of enormous size and power, like an erect elephant, but its movements, in spite of its bulk, were exceedingly alert. For a moment, as I saw its shape, I hoped that it was an iguanodon, which I knew to be harmless, but, ignorant as I was, I soon saw that this was a very different creature. Instead of the gentle, deer-shaped head of the great three-toed leaf-eater, this beast had a broad, squat, toad-like face like that which had alarmed us in our camp. His ferocious cry and the horrible energy of his pursuit both assured me that this was surely one of the great flesh-eating dinosaurs, the most terrible beasts which have ever walked this earth. As the huge brute loped along it dropped forward upon its fore-paws and brought its nose to the ground every twenty yards or so. It was smelling out my trail. Sometimes, for an instant, it was at fault. Then it would catch it up again and come bounding swiftly along the path I had taken."
"The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in 1912. The story about an expedition to the Amazon basin, where dinosaurs and other extinct creatures still survive, soon became a bestseller. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in «The Lost World».
