The Lost World

Most readers know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the author of detective stories and the creator of one of the greatest detectives of all time - Sherlock Holmes. In the novel "The Lost World," A. Doyle presents himself as a fantasy writer, telling an incredible story about dinosaurs living in the jungles of South America. Going on a research expedition, the main characters had no idea that they would have to survive among carnivorous allosaurs and flying pterodactyls and even engage in a battle with the distant ancestors of modern humans. Bright and realistic illustrations by artist Vladimir Shevchenko will stir the imagination of readers and make them believe that perhaps somewhere in the depths of the Amazon there exists a lost plateau inhabited by dinosaurs and ferocious ape-men. For middle school age. .