Audiobook narrated by Jesús Polvorinos. Subscribe for more content! Our website: audioclasicos.com Published in 1912, “The Lost World” is the first of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works starring Professor Challenger, a charismatic and controversial scientist. A key work in its genre, a mix of adventure, fantasy and science fiction. Some opinions “One of the funniest satires of modern scientists, their academic quarrels and their reductive but energetic vision of reality, is also one of the best adventure novels that this century has allowed. This is The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a novel in which Professor Challenger is created and which is among the best told stories of this extraordinary narrator. The plot seems hackneyed to us today, due to the countless imitations it has endured; The Lost World can be summed up thus: Professor Challenger, travelling through South America, discovers traces of prehistoric life in the Amazon jungles; he returns to London and prepares an expedition to verify his theories; these explorers find an inaccessible plateau in the middle of the jungle, inhabited by antediluvian beasts and races from the dawn of humanity; after numerous dangers, they return to London with surprising evidence of their discovery. Conan Doyle manages to narrate the entire adventure, always placing the reader in the most appropriate point to enjoy it, so that each scene acquires a sort of magical joyful intensity: The Lost World is a novel that is read in a permanently jubilant state of mind, typical of a party eve or the dreamy and exciting dawn in which we are going to undertake a longed-for journey. It is a book written with good humour, in which the author infects his audience with the enjoyment that he had in composing each page. (Fernando Savater, “La infancia recuperado”, Ed. Taurus, 1976) “In some hidden corner of the Amazon, inaccessible as a forbidden love, there rises the plateau that time forgot, the Land of Maple White, which was explored for the first and last time by Professor Challenger’s small expedition, the legendary and prodigious country of dragons… I remember very well lying in bed, at thirteen years old, with my eyes wet with strange anguish and passion, entrenched in darkness. On the one hand, it seemed impossible to me that one could be so perfectly unhappy; on the other hand, I was constantly convinced that there could be no one happier than me in the world. Then, perhaps without ceasing to cry, I reconstructed step by step the path that leads to the lost world; I timidly joined Challenger’s expedition and trusted in the unerring aim of Lord John Roxton; I walked with Malone along the night road of shocks and monsters that leads to the Central Lake; I felt behind me the oppressive panting of the attacking tyrannosaurus. I fled, running with terrified joy through the shadows of the land of dragons. Long before being overtaken by my tyrannical pursuer, I fell asleep without memories in the peace of the Lord. (Fernando Savater, “La infancia recuperado”, Ed. Taurus, 1976) Cover design: Guillermo P. Guillot