

Rider Haggard’s dedication to King Solomon’s Mines – ‘to all the big and little boys who read it’.ĭoyle’s sentiments are most apt for this most exciting boy’s own tale which is a fine mixture of science fiction and rousing adventure. In dedication to his novel, The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: ‘The ordinary laws of adventure are suspended… Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.’

The Lost World David Stuart Davies explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world of prehistoric beasts.
