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Lost World, The Lost World or Lost Worlds may refer to:
Arthur Conan Doyle novel and adaptations
The Lost World (Doyle novel), 1912
The Lost World (1925 film), a silent film set in South America
The Lost World (1960 film), set in Venezuela
The Lost World (1992 film), set in Africa
The Lost World (1998 film), set in Mongolia
The Lost World (2001 film), a BBC film
The Lost World (TV series), or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
"The Lost World", a radio drama in the Radio Tales series
Michael Crichton novel and adaptations
The Lost World (Crichton novel), 1995
The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a 1997 film
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film score)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (arcade game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (console game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (handheld game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Sega Genesis game)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (pinball)
Chaos Island: The Lost World, a video game
Other uses in arts and entertainment
= Film and television
=Lost Worlds (TV series), a History Channel documentary series
Il mondo perduto ('The lost world'), a compilation of short documentary films by Vittoria De Seta
= Gaming
=Forgotten Worlds (known as Lost Worlds in Japan), a 1988 arcade game
The Lost World, a 1998 role-playing game for MSX2
The History Channel: Lost Worlds, a Mac game, 2008
Ricochet Lost Worlds, a video game
Sonic Lost World, a 2013 video game
Lost World (pinball), a pinball machine
= Literature
=Lost Worlds (Carter short story collection), 1980
Lost Worlds (Smith short story collection), 1944
Lost Worlds (gamebook), by Alfred Leonardi, 1983
Lost world, a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres
Lost World (manga), by Osamu Tezuka, 1948
The Lost World, a poetry collection by Randall Jarrell
= Music
=The Lost World, a 2009 album by Pull Tiger Tail
Places
Lost World Caverns, West Virginia, U.S.
See also
All pages with titles containing lost world
List of lost lands
List of mythological places
Lost city
The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian adventure romance and remains popular into the 21st century.
The genre arose during an era when Western archeologists discovered and studied civilizations around the world previously unknown to them, through disciplines such as Egyptology, Assyriology, or Mesoamerican studies. Thus, real stories of archaeological finds inspired writings on the topic. Between 1871 and the First World War, the number of published lost world narratives, set in every continent, increased significantly.
The genre has similar themes to "mythical kingdoms", such as Atlantis and El Dorado.
History
King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard is sometimes considered the first lost world narrative. Haggard's novel shaped the form and influenced later lost world narratives, including Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (1888), Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot (1918), A. Merritt's The Moon Pool (1918), and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (1931).
Earlier works, such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871) and Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872) use a similar plot as a vehicle for Swiftian social satire rather than romantic adventure. Other early examples are Simon Tyssot de Patot's Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé (1710), which includes a prehistoric fauna and flora, and Robert Paltock's The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751), an 18th-century imaginary voyage inspired by both Defoe and Swift, in which a man named Peter Wilkins discovers a race of winged people on an isolated island surrounded by high cliffs as in Burroughs's Caspak. The 1820 Hollow Earth novel Symzonia has also been cited as the first of the lost world form, and Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and The Village in the Treetops (1901) popularized the theme of surviving pockets of prehistoric species. J.-H. Rosny aîné would later publish The Amazing Journey of Hareton Ironcastle (1922), a novel where an expedition in the heart of Africa discovers a mysterious area with an ecosystem from another world, with alien flora and fauna. Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) has certain lost world elements towards the end of the tale.
James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933) enjoyed popular success in using the genre as a takeoff for popular philosophy and social comment. It introduced the name Shangri-La, a meme for the idealization of the lost world as a Paradise. Similar books where the inhabitants of the lost world are seen as superior to the outsiders, are Joseph O'Neill's Land under England (1935) and Douglas Valder Duff's Jack Harding’s Quest (1939).
Hergé also explores the theme in his Tintin comics The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun (1944–48). Here the protagonists encounter an unknown Inca kingdom in the Andes.
Contemporary examples
Contemporary American novelist Michael Crichton invokes this tradition in his novel Congo (1980), which involves a quest for King Solomon's mines, fabled to be in a lost African city called Zinj. During the 1990s, James Gurney published a series of juvenile novels about a lost island called Dinotopia, in which humans live alongside living dinosaurs.
In video games, it is most notably present in the Tomb Raider and Uncharted franchises.
The Hanna-Barbera action cartoon Space Ghost features a segment "Dino Boy in the Lost Valley", about a young boy named Todd who survives a plane crash and lands in a hidden prehistoric valley in South America. In another Hanna-Barbera cartoon Valley of the Dinosaurs science professor John Butler and his family - wife Kim, teenage daughter Katie, young son Greg, and dog Digger - are on a rafting trip along the Amazon River in an uncharted river canyon when they are suddenly swept through a cavern and caught in a whirlpool. Upon resurfacing, they find themselves in a mysterious realm where humans coexist with various prehistoric creatures, including dinosaurs. The Butlers meet and befriend a clan of Neanderthal cavepeople.
In movies, the Indiana Jones franchise makes use of similar concepts. Also comics make use of the idea, such as the Savage Land in Marvel Comics and Themyscira in DC comics.
Geographic settings
Early lost world novels were typically set in parts of the world as yet unexplored by Europeans. Favorite locations were the interior of Africa (many of Haggard's novels, Burroughs' Tarzan novels) or inland South America (Doyle's The Lost World, Merritt's The Face in the Abyss), as well as Central Asia (Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, Haggard's Ayesha: The Return of She, Merritt's The Metal Monster, Hilton's Lost Horizon) and Australia (James Francis Hogan's The Lost Explorer and Eureka by Owen Hall (pseudonym of New Zealand politician Hugh Lusk)).
Later writers favored Antarctica, especially as a refuge for prehistoric species. Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels were set on the island of Caprona (a.k.a. Caspak) in the Southern Ocean. In Edison Marshall's Dian of the Lost Land (1935), Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals, and mammoths survive in the "Moss Country", a sheltered warm corner of the continent. Dennis Wheatley's novel The Man Who Missed the War (1945) also deals with a warm and hidden area on the continent, where there live humans such as the descendants of Atlantis. In Jeremy Robinson's Antarktos Rising (2007), dinosaurs and Nephilim emerge as the icecap melts. Mat Johnson's Pym (2011) describes giant white hominids living in ice caves. Ian Cameron's The Mountains at the Bottom of the World (1972) has a relict population of Paranthropus living not quite in Antarctica, but in the southern Chilean Andes. Crusoe Warburton (1954), by Victor Wallace Germains, describes an island in the far South Atlantic, with a lost, pre-gunpowder empire.
According to Allienne Becker, there was a logical evolution from the lost world subgenre to the planetary romance genre: "When there were no longer any unexplored corners of our earth, the Lost Worlds Romance turned to space."
Brian Stableford makes a related point about Lost Worlds: "The motif has gradually fallen into disuse by virtue of increasing geographical knowledge; these days lost lands have to be very well hidden indeed or displaced beyond some kind of magical or dimensional boundary. Such displacement [...] so transforms their significance that they are better thought of as Secondary Worlds or Otherworlds."
Below is a list of classic lost world titles drawn from Lost Worlds: The Ultimate Anthology. Titles were selected from 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel, Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Lost Race Checklist and E. F. Bleiler's Science-fiction, the Early Years.
= Lost worlds in Africa
=King Solomon's Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard
She: A History of Adventure by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The People of the Mist by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Benita: An African Romance by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Ghost Kings by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Yellow God: An Idol of Africa by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Queen Sheba's Ring by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Holy Flower by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Ivory Child by Sir H. Rider Haggard
She and Allan by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Heu-Heu; or, The Monster by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Treasure of the Lake by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Return of Tarzan (and many other Tarzan books) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari by Frederick Carruthers Cornell
The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
By the Gods Beloved (also known as The Gates of Kamt) by Baroness Orczy
Wings of Danger by Arthur A. Nelson
The Lost World (1992 film)
= Lost worlds in North America
=The Aztec Treasure House by Thomas A. Janvier
Fruit of the Desert by Richard Hayes Barry
The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
The Mound by H.P. Lovecraft
= Lost worlds in Central America
=Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance by William Westall
The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs by Charles Sumner Seeley
Heart of the World by Sir H. Rider Haggard
The Bridge of Light by A. Hyatt Verrill
= Lost worlds in South America
=The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Web of the Sun by T. S. Stribling
Immortal Athalia by Harry F. Haley
Prisoners of the Sun by Hergé
Lost in the Andes! by Carl Barks, 1948, Donald Duck and his nephews get to know square eggs.
Up, 2009 film by Pixar Animation Studios released by Walt Disney Pictures.
= Lost worlds in Asia
=The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain Kingdom: A Narrative of Adventure by David Lawson Johnstone
Om: The Secret of Abhor Valley by Talbot Mundy
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
The Valley of Eyes Unseen by Gilbert Henry Collins
Harilek: A Romance of Modern Central Asia by Ganpat (Louis Gompertz)
Fields of Sleep by E. C. Vivian
The Purple Sapphire by John Taine
The Metal Monster by A. Merritt
The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson
= Lost worlds in Europe and the Middle East
=No-Man’s-Land by John Buchan
The Knight of the Silver Star by Percy James Brebner
The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft
= Lost worlds in Australia
=The Lost Explorer by James Francis Hogan
Marooned on Australia by Ernest Favenc
Eureka by Owen Hall
= Lost worlds at the Poles
=The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
Beyond The Great South Wall by Frank Savile
The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country by John O. Greene
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost Ones by Ian Cameron
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Greatest Adventure by John Taine
Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. Stilson
The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
= Hollow Earth
=At the Earth's Core (and its sequels) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Under the Auroras: A Marvelous Tale of the Interior World by William Jenkins Shaw
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt
Zanthodon by Lin Carter
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
See also
Lost city (fiction)
Lost world films (category)
References
La Gazette des Français du Paraguay, Le Monde Perdu, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - El Mundo Perdido, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle bilingual French Spanish, Numéro 9, Année 1, Asuncion 2013.
External links
Jessica Amanda Salmonson's checklist of lost-world/lost-race books.
A checklist of lost-world/lost-race books, and related material at Violet Books
Lost Worlds: The Ultimate Anthology. A collection of 33 classic tales
"Lost Worlds" at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction – with linked entries on "Lost Races" and related themes
"Lost Lands and Continents" and "Lost Races" entries in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
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- Raiders of the Lost Ark
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- Lost World
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- The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- Sonic Lost World
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- The Lost World (Crichton novel)
- The Lost World (1960 film)
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