<p class='DefaultText'>Before <em>Jurassic Park</em> there was <em>The Lost World</em>.</p> <p class='DefaultText'>This classic terror-adventure novel has set the standard for today’s popular entertainment as followed by Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg. Featuring the bold Professor Challenger a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction<em> The Lost World</em> is the account of a scientific expedition by four high-spirited Englishmen—two scientists a big-game hunter and a journalist—deep into the Amazon jungle. In this region cut off from the outside world by unscalable vertical cliffs and fetid swamps they encounter a world where dinosaurs roam free and natives fight a murderous war with their fierce neighbors the ape-men. Trapped on the isolated plateau with only hunting rifles as protection the four must use savvy and intellect to escape from this primeval terror.</p>