The audiobook of this classic was absolutely terrific. Glen McCready is now one of my favorite narrators. His reading of this classic of pulp fantasy was flawless.

It's a fantastic story of adventure in a prehistoric lost land, similar to stories from Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs. One must accept the mores of the author's time, of course, and the British empirical mindset, but it's a fun listen. Highly recommended for families (or anyone) on road trips.

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حقا لقد اثبتت لى هذه الرواية ان سير ارثر كونان دويل يستطيع ان يخرج من عبائته مغامرات رائعة تختلف عن مغامرات شيرلوك هولمز البوليسية الرائعة
استمعت جدا بالرواية والترجمة رائعة واختيار موفق من دكتور احمد خالد توفيق لنقلها للعربية
رحم الله دكتور احمد خالد توفيق واسكنه فسيح جناته

Professor Challenger's descriptions of a pre-historic culture with animal life somewhere in the jungles of South America is met with derision by the scientific community. It is decided Professor Summerlee, his chief opponent, along with Lord John Roxton and newspaper reporter Edward Malone will accompany him on an expedition to investigate the claim. The tale is told through the eyes of Malone who sends letters back to his editor by a faithful watchman who stays on the opposite side of their destination plateau. They fell a tree to gain entrance to the plateau, but it falls in the gorge, leaving their only connection to the other world a rope which can deliver supplies or letters but not get them back across. They decide to accomplish their mission and then worry about a means to exit the plateau. They encounter a pterodactyl almost immediately. They encounter many dangers and adventures on this well-preserved plateau, including some "half-men, half-ape" creatures which could be the "missing link." I'll leave the rest of the story and adventures for your enjoyment along with their reception upon their return. I'm not a fan of science fiction, but I decided to give this summer AudioSync offering a try since it was authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is very mild in comparison to many of today's science fiction offerings because of the genre's evolution over time. The adventure seemed to appeal to the interest in Darwinian theory at the time of the book's writing. The book was narrated by Glen McCready who seemed to have the perfect voice for Professor Challenger.

Lorsignori, volete vedere un vero dinosauro?

Conosciuto più per il personaggio - giustamente famoso - di Sherlock Holmes, Doyle si è comunque distinto nel genere avventura grazie alla felice intuizione di riportare in auge i dinosauri.
"Il mondo perduto", forte di questa trovata, intrattiene e affascina sfruttando la componente misteriosa che si svela progressivamente; inoltre beneficia di quella verve avventurosa intrinseca alla penna di Doyle.
L'apprezzabile humour inglese è la classica ciliegina sulla torta.

This was a fun, exciting read, but there is a reason why Doyle is known more for Sherlock Holmes than this. It's a good book, just not something I think I'll be coming back to a lot.

Mi primer Conan Doyle y ha resultado ser una experiencia entretenida y emocionante.

El mundo perdido es la primera novela en la que se introduce al profesor Challenger, un personaje hecho para la aventura, aunque con un carácter y un comportamiento bastante complicados —no les miento si les digo que como tal el sujeto no fue de mi agrado—, quien se decide a emprender un viaje (el cual ya había hecho con anterioridad pero sin éxito de recolectar evidencia confiable) hacia un 'nuevo mundo' en compañía de un pequeño grupo de personajes, con quienes vivirá una de serie de aventuras y experiencias extraordinarias.

Disfruté mucho de conocer, primero que nada, la narrativa de Conan Doyle. Sé que pude haber comenzado por alguna de sus obras de Sherlock Holmes, pero justo ahora que me apetecía una historia con una trama rápida de leer, personajes intrépidos y donde pasaran muchas cosas, decidí probar con esta obra y para nada me arrepiento. El autor sabe cómo desarrollar los eventos que se presentan a nuestros personajes, hace que quieras seguir leyendo para saber qué pasará enseguida (en mi caso, con dos noches sumergido en la novela fue más que suficiente), y tiene un par de momentos emotivos que te hacen empatizar con el grupo de aventureros.

Otro de los puntos que destaco es el papel del narrador que cae exclusivamente en el personaje de Malone, ya que además de estar bien logrado, es a través de sus ojos que vemos la historia y nos asombramos junto con él por todo aquello que se van encontrando en el camino. De hecho, considero a Malone mi personaje favorito de la novela, y fue gracias a su personalidad que se me hizo muy amena. Hablando del final, como típica novela de aventuras, le da un buen cierre al viaje y deja las posibles incógnitas resueltas.
Como comentario adicional, estuve pensando que si Viaje al centro de la Tierra (Jules Verne) y La máquina del tiempo (H. G. Wells) hubieran tenido un 'hijo', sin duda sería El mundo perdido de Conan Doyle. Encontré muchas similitudes entre las dos novelas previas con esta, como si se hubieran fusionado, que me fue imposible no pensar en una loca idea como tal. :)

En fin, una historia a la que vale la pena darle una oportunidad, especialmente si lo tuyo son las novelas de aventuras.

n  "... porque únicamente cuando el hombre se arroja al mundo pensando que el heroísmo lo rodea por todas partes, y con el deseo siempre vivo en su corazón de salir a conquistar el primero que pueda avizorar, es cuando rompe, como yo lo hice, con la vida acostumbrada y se aventura en el crepúsculo místico de la maravillosa tierra que encierra las grandes aventuras y las grandes recompensas."n

Uma aventura no coração da selva amazónica, onde no início do século XX ainda viviam homens-macaco e dinossauros! Gostei da premissa e dos quatro aventureiros, apenas me fez comichão a mania que o homem tem de ir para sítios inexplorados, em que já viviam outras criaturas, e querer ser o rei daquilo tudo.

This was a no-brainer for me. Dinosaurs! In the Amazon! I was completely on board for a classic adventure, and that's exactly what I got. The standout feature here, dinosaurs aside, are the adventurers themselves. There's the standard "great white hunter" character, the most likeable of the bunch, and the journalist Malone, who narrates. Malone is, in some respects, the typical plucky hero in over his head, but he's rather less dim than some I've encountered. The real stars are the two scientists, Summerlee and Challenger. Summerlee is dry and sarcastic, but Challenger is just... wow. Fifty pounds of arrogance in a ten pound bag. And, mostly, hilarious.

I have one little doubt about how Challenger is written. He starts the book as a disgraced scientist, fresh from an expedition in the Amazon where he supposedly found dinosaurs. Are we supposed to find him unbelievable? If so, it's brilliant writing, because Challenger is as textbook a crank as I've ever seen. Obviously, I knew he would eventually be proven right, and I thought Malone was weirdly naive to trust his story so readily. Again, if this is what Conan Doyle intended me to believe, he did an awesome job. If I'm supposed to side with Challenger, not so much.

But the big thing that ruined my enjoyment of an otherwise fun novel is its casual racism. Yes, it's about what I'd expect from an early 20th century novel set in South America. It's still ugly to read.

A swashbuckling Victorian adventure!

Like Monty Python's laughable character seeking a shrubbery for his uppity princess, Edward Malone, reporter for London's Daily Gazette, is an earnest young man in search of a quest. Gladys Hungerton, the flighty belle of Malone's eye, has told him quite clearly that she couldn't possibly return his love until he had proven himself in the time-honoured fashion of achieving some manly endeavour. When the Zoological Institute skeptically puts together an expedition to verify or refute the blustery Professor George Challenger's wild claims of having found an oasis of still living prehistoric flora and fauna deep in the Amazon jungle, Malone knows he has found his task and pleads with his paper's editor to give him the opportunity to join the group. Professor Summerlee, acknowledged leader of the faction at the Institute that scoffed most loudly at Challenger's claims and now appointed as observer on the expedition, Challenger, Malone and world-renowned gentleman-adventurer and sportsman, Lord John Roxton, steam up the Amazon with a contingent of porters in search of Challenger's mythical island of land that time seems to have passed by!

Men's men all, our intrepid group of adventurers, in the typical spirit of Victorian derring-do, seems to face any difficulty with that chin-up, crusty, indomitable turn of the century Brit attitude. Of course, success is as predictable as the sun rising tomorrow morning and our group finds not only a variety of living dinosaurs and Jurassic plant life in abundance but stumbles into a turf war between a tribe of primitive humans and a race of ape men that Challenger and Summerlee categorize as the elusive "missing link". A rollicking adventure, THE LOST WORLD reads quickly, easily and enjoyably. Having stood the test of time for almost a century, I'm sure it will last another and be just as enjoyable to our grandchildren's grandchildren.

While Challenger, a short, stocky, hirsute bull of a man is physically the complete opposite of Doyle's more well known protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, the same cannot be said of his pomposity, arrogance and mental dexterity. In that regard, he could well have been Sherlock's and Mycroft's long lost sibling. When Challenger addressed his team, trying to solve the riddle of descending a steep, intractable cliff, he opined: "The problem of the descent is at first sight a formidable one and yet I cannot doubt that the intellect can solve it." Would Sherlock have put it any differently?

Modern readers may well be surprised at the deeply entrenched racist attitudes that Doyle displays in his writing. The black porter named "Zambo", one small letter away from the more insulting term "Sambo", is clearly treated as little more than a slave and the native Indian porters are obviously thought of in much the same light. We can forgive Doyle to the extent that he is not guilty of anything more than displaying the attitudes that were prevalent in his day but one hopes the modern reader sees these despicable ideas today as mere caricatures to be sneered at and learned from without allowing them to detract from an otherwise wonderful tale.

THE LOST WORLD is certainly a character and plot driven story but Doyle has not left us totally bereft of atmosphere and scenery:

"For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall. Clear as crystal, motionless as a sheet of glass, green as the edge of an iceberg, it stretched in front of us under its leafy archway, every stroke of our paddles sending a thousand ripples across its shining surface."

Now how beautiful is that?

Enjoy! If you've never read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle beyond Sherlock Holmes, this is a great place to start!

Paul Weiss

And this is the first time I realize Arthur Conan Doyle wrote something other than the Sherlock Holmes series. Quite surprising to see him throw himself into writing an adventure novel in the style of Jules Verne, and - in my humble opinion - pulling it off even better than him, with less overexplaining. Still, it's a novel about 4 adventurers setting forth to discover a land where dinosaurs still live. It might be entertaining, it certainly is, but not very exciting.

Additional disclaimer: this was written in 1912, so - surprise! - it's quite racist and mysoginistic. Not to mention the glorification of man's domination of nature, including the decimation of an entire species which, by the way, is also mankind's closest animal relative, the missing link of human evolution. But hey, it's the begginning of the 20th century - hardly surprising. Apply some historical context and it's quite the entertaining book.

¡Primer libro leído del año 2016! Muchos conocen a este autor por Sherlock Homes. En mi caso este libro llevaba más de dos años esperando ser leído y ya era hora. Divertido es leer una novelita corta de un autor tan conocido como (no olvidemos el reconocimiento) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tan alejada de lo que yo creía que escribía en general. Y ha sido muy interesante.

Un excéntrico profesor de zoología llamado George Challenger ha regresado recientemente de su viaje al Amazonas y está provocando reacciones en la sociedad científica de Londres. Nadie cree lo que dice ni las fotos que enseña sobre sus "descubrimientos". Un periodista llamado Edward Malone ha decidido aceptar un encargo de su editor para escribir todo lo que ha descubierto el profesor y publicarlo. Pero cuando se presenta en su casa terminan a los golpes. Impulsado por el deseo de impresionar a la chica que le gusta, Malone se embarca en un viaje hacia el corazón del Amazonas para comprobar los descubrimientos del profesor Challenger junto al profesor Summerlee y el cazador John Roxton. Lo que se cree haber encontrado:


No hay Juliannes Moores en este libro

Reseña completa: http://rapsodia-literaria.blogspot.co...

Bueno, qué decir de este libro...

Hace mucho que lo he leído y de a poco voy actualizando las reseñas. Pero, cuando se trata de Conan Doyle, no puedo ser imparcial porque adoro sus libros.

En El mundo perdido nos reencontramos con las clásicas historias de aventuras, al mejor estilo Verne o Salgari: la expedición que nos sorprende en determinado momento con un universo entero por descubrir, los desafíos que enfrentan los personajes en esa travesía poblada de novedad, las sorpresas que un presente maravilloso y salvaje instaura en términos de relaciones hombre-naturaleza. En fin, todo aquello que podemos imaginar que ocurre cuando el ser humano descubre un coto prehistórico perdido.

Quizás es predecible y algo trillado el argumento, pero no por eso menos disfrutable.