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There’s only one way for Professor George Edward Challenger to prove that dinosaurs still roam the earth. He invites skeptical journalist Edward Malone to accompany him and a group of adventurers to see the creatures with his own eyes. But when they arrive at the fantastic volcanic plateau in the Amazon where time stands still, their expedition quickly becomes one of survival. With its cliff-hanging escapes, rousing humor, and nailbiting suspense, The Lost World is a pioneering work of fantasy-adventure that paved the way for every thrill ride to follow.

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive.

Growing up during the centuries-long conflict between the empires of Egypt and Hatti, the young princess Istara is taken hostage by the King of Hatti to secure the loyalty of her father, the King of Kadesh to the empire. Soon her new life in Hatti's glittering capital becomes all she knows. Bound in blood before the gods to Hatti's unwilling crown prince, Istara, now Hatti's queen-in-waiting, learns she will never be loved.

Effie has always loved the forest. She is just a typical young woman, with an ordinary job and an ordinary life. She lives in a small town surrounded by woods. These woods are where she finds inspiration for the art she creates. Dragons, elves, swords, and shields. A mighty war being waged, with only her imagination and a canvas to craft it. And she always seems to draw the same elf when she goes out to create; she doesn't know why. But a name has always stuck out to her, even when she has never heard it before in her life. Kirinti. In her paintings, this elf was the hero.