Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author who found fame writing about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a prolific writer who also wrote science fiction, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction.. An exciting account of a jungle expedition's encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This is the first installment of the Professor Challenger series. An expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs, etc) still survive. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. If you like Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jurassic Park and Dinosaurs, this is a must read. Doyle is one of the all-time great storytellers...