Arthur Conan Doyle is one of my favorite authors and I remember enjoying this book many years ago, but had forgotten most of the key points. I just finished reading it again—this time with my kids. It was written in 1912, so the language isn’t altogether kid-friendly, but it is an incredible adventure story (basically the template all future adventure stories are based on)…so once they got into it, they were into it. It’s about an expedition to a heretofore undiscovered plateau in the remote jungles of South America. The plateau is cut off from the rest of the world and evolution as we know it. Here, the explorers encounter dinosaurs, other prehistoric creatures, Missing Links and all sorts of other crazy monsters. Next up: Jules Verne.
