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In\u00a0The Lost World<\/b>, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger\u2014a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction\u2014Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, \u201cthe ordinary laws of Nature are suspended\u201d and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. \u201cJust as Sherlock Holmes set the standard\u2014and in some sense established the formula\u2014for the detective story . . . , so too has\u00a0The Lost World<\/b>\u00a0<\/i>set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . . ,\u201d Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. \u201cThe tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in\u00a0The<\/i><\/small>\u00a0Lost World<\/b>\u00a0have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[684],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":["20133"],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n