Reader(s): McCready, Glen
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA785212
Barcode: 9789626348529
Release Date: 02/2008

DOYLE, A.C.: Lost World (The) (Unabridged)

Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs…

Only one man has ever been there, and his reports are so astonishing that no-one is prepared to believe him; except the extraordinary Professor Challenger. He decides to take a trip to prove beyond doubt that this lost world really exists. With the daredevil journalist Edward Malone, meticulous, sceptical Professor Summerlee and the professional adventurer Lord John Roxton, Challenger sets out on a mission as dangerous as it is thrilling.

Inspiring endless imitations, The Lost World is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic adventure of discovery.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Doyle, Arthur Conan - Author
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1Foreword00:53
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2Chapter 1 There Are Heroisms All Round Us07:00
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3‘Now tell me what’s amiss with me?’07:34
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4Chapter 2 Try Your Luck With Professor Challenger07:42
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5I walked across to the Savage Club…04:35
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6Half an hour later…04:37
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7Chapter 3 He is a Perfectly Impossible Person05:32
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8He sat in a rotating chair…05:39
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9He had sprung to his feet…05:33
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10Chapter 4 It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World05:57
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11All this he boomed forth like a professor…06:52
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12I had opened the volume with some expectation…07:06
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13He handed me the open book…05:58
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Disc 2
1The photograph was certainly very off-coloured…06:06
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2‘Did you see any other trace of life?’05:59
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3Chapter 5 Question!04:54
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4When we arrived at the hall…06:06
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5This brought the lecturer to the great ladder of animal life…06:43
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6‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ he began…07:39
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7Mr. Summerlee, the veteran Professor…05:49
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8Chapter 6 I was the Flail of the Lord07:04
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9‘Talking won’t make it any better…’07:24
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10Perhaps I have dwelt too long…06:50
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11Chapter 7 Tomorrow we Disappear into the Unknown06:36
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Disc 3
1No wonder that the ginger-headed man…05:24
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2Lord John had placed his watch upon the table…06:12
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3Lord John Roxton has chartered a large steam launch…05:08
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4Chapter 8 The Outlying Pickets of the New World04:24
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5For two days we made our way…06:38
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6All day the drums rumbled…07:25
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7‘No Indian here…’06:35
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8On the ninth day…05:53
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9Chapter 9 Who could have Forseen it?05:21
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10Beneath him you might have seen the three of us…05:43
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11The ground at the foot of the cliff…07:00
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12It was a solemn place…06:42
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Disc 4
1You will realise as you read it…06:53
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2On the sixth day…05:29
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3The level of the plateau…06:38
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4Seating himself with a leg overhanging the abyss…05:44
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5Now that we had the clue to his action…06:21
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6Chapter 10 The Most Wonderful things Have Happened06:37
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7It was midday…05:48
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8‘Wealden!’ cried Challenger, in an ecstasy…’06:40
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9I had the same feeling of mystery…07:40
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10We staggered through the brushwood…06:31
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11Chapter 11 For once I was the Hero04:59
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12From the utter silence…07:13
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Disc 5
1On the dull, scaly, slate-coloured skin…06:27
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2That evening we had a grand discussion…05:19
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3Professor Summerlee gave a snort of impatience…05:58
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4The sun was just above the western sky-line…07:56
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5Chapter 12 It was Dreadful in the Forest05:53
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6The darkness of the forest had been alarming…06:10
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7For a long time I lay and watched…07:43
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8Even now when I think of that nightmare…05:34
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9The sloping wall of the pit…05:00
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10After a period, during which I sat…05:39
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11Chapter 13 A Sight which I shall Never Forget06:02
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12‘Well, what did they do?’06:59
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Disc 6
1‘Well, it wasn’t…’04:47
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2We filled in the time…05:01
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3In front of and around this dejected group…05:49
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4So it seemed to us…06:13
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5Chapter 14 Those were Real Conquests07:27
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6Professor Summerlee for once was too depressed…06:30
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7It was in the early afternoon…04:52
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8It was clear that the natives had come…04:39
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9Summerlee had lain down and slept…06:19
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10But the matter was more deadly…06:13
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11Chapter 15 Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders06:52
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12We had little time to watch them…06:36
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Disc 7
1All this I shall some day write…06:12
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2If Lord John’s behaviour at this time was strange…06:53
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3Never was our expedition in more imminent danger…07:11
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4We stood with bitter hearts…06:26
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5Chapter 16 A Procession! A Procession!07:18
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6‘Of the appearance of the four wanderers…’07:48
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7‘It had been hoped that the proceedings would end…’06:47
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8‘It will be within the recollection of many…’04:52
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9‘It was at this point…’06:39
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10So far my friend Macdona…05:30
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11How absurd life is!06:57
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Total Playing Time: 08:33:37