Daily Mail, April 16th, 2004
I WAS presented with The Lost World in 1956 for winning the school Under 11 English Prize, and until last week I hadn't read it since. The Lost World is a 'boy's book' which, as an adult, I've reread with huge relish. It is pure adventure, the story of an expedition to an inaccessible South American plateau, where dinosaurs and apemen still flourish and vie for supremacy with the native 'Indians'. (This ethnic inexactitude is only one example of the casual pre-political correctness racism one just has to take on board in a book written in 1912.) What distinguishes The Lost World from other ea...
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