To win the favor of the beautiful Gladys Hangerton, young reporter Ed Melone joins a risky expedition led by the irascible brute and brilliant scientist Professor Challenger. The destination is an unnamed plateau somewhere in the tropics; the sketches in the album of an American artist who died in the wilds of South America helped to find it. In addition to the landscape, the sketchbook contains a life-size sketch of the monster. And it looks like a dinosaur! Is this a miraculously surviving island of prehistoric times in the modern world?

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Published:  1912
Original language:  English
Literary Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, History