The Lost World

To win the favor of the worldly beauty Gladys Hungerton, young reporter Ed Malone joins a risky expedition led by the fiery brute and brilliant scientist Professor Challenger. The destination is an unnamed plateau somewhere in the tropics; it will... be sought based on sketches in the album of an American artist who perished in the jungles of South America. Besides the landscapes, the album contains sketches of dinosaurs. And it seems they were made from life! Could it be that we are speaking of a miracle-surviving island from prehistoric times in the modern world? The format of the interactive series "Around the Book" allows for not just an exciting novel about the adventures of four brave men to be placed on separate pages of the publication, but also detailed cultural and historical commentary, maps, diagrams, drawings, and photographs. The history of paleontology, scientific discoveries at the turn of the century, the interests of wealthy Britons, flora, fauna, and ethnography of the Amazon, scientific forgeries and misconceptions – a true encyclopedia of England has emerged on the eve of the First World War. In the text itself, readers will find surprises: drawings and notes from that very album of Maple-White. The novel is decorated with stripe illustrations in a bright, yet elegant color palette of modern graphical style.