The Lost World

To win the favor of the social beauty Gladys Hungerton, young reporter Ed Malone joins a risky expedition led by the hot-tempered brute and brilliant scientist Professor Challenger. The destination is an unnamed plateau somewhere in the tropics; it will be searched for using sketches in the album of an American artist who perished in the depths of South America. In addition to landscapes, the album contains sketches of dinosaurs. And it seems they were made from life! Is this a miraculous survival of a prehistoric island in the modern world?

The interactive series format "Around the Book" allows for the placement of not only an exciting novel about the adventures of four brave men but also detailed cultural and historical comments, maps, diagrams, drawings, and photographs on separate pages of the publication. The history of paleontology, scientific discoveries at the turn of the century, the interests of wealthy Britons, the flora, fauna, and ethnography of the Amazon, scientific forgeries and misconceptions—this has become a true encyclopedia of England on the eve of the First World War.

Within the text, readers will find surprises: drawings and notes from that very album of Maple-White. The novel is decorated with striped illustrations in a bright yet elegant color palette of modern graphic novels.