Lost Worlds
Back to people overviewA form of adventure fiction centred on a hidden, isolated or inaccessible region where a lost civilisation, culture or ecosystem has survived beyond the reach of modern history and scientific knowledge. Although the idea predates Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912), that novel gave the genre its most enduring name and helped establish many of its familiar features: remote plateaux, prehistoric survivals, scientific expeditions, and the revelation of a world thought lost to time.
Image: Illustration by Harry Rountree from The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan-Doyle. Image courtesy of Ex Carta.
