The adventure that founded a genre. The volcanic Professor Challenger announces to a jeering Royal Society that living dinosaurs survive on a remote plateau in South America — and dares the world to prove him wrong. A skeptical reporter, a big-game sportsman, and a rival scientist set off with him into the unknown. Written the year after Conan Doyle tired of Sherlock Holmes, it gave us the first lost-world expedition, ancestor of every jungle-plateau story since. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 41 full-page color plates.