"The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"s classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big-game hunter and a journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. "The Lost World" is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure that has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest science-fiction stories ever written.