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Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio book performed by Michael Prichard - Unabridged Fiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC - 8 hours, 13 minutes

Publisher, Tantor Media (2003)

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On a zoology expedition up the Amazon, Professor Challenger has made an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to Journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was."

Professor Challenger vows to prove his tale at a Zoological meeting, and a party is formed to find the truth. Edward Malone joins adventurer Lord John Roxton, and staid professor Summerlee on the mission. They journey to the depths of the Amazon, well provisioned and armed to the teeth. But how little they are prepared for what they find there....

Today, Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but he was also the author of many other science fiction and mystery novels, and The Lost World was one of his best. This original tale of the "living dinosaurs" was the inspiration for many of its kind, including Jurassic Park.

About the Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages, and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons and comic books. By 1920 Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884 he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full time writer. The first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson. During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902) Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital, and wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Conan Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex, until his death in 1930.