The archaeological discovery of mysterious clay figures in Mexico in 1942 raises a question: how could people that lived four thousand years ago be familiar with the appearance of prehistoric lizards that died out tens of millions of years ago? The daughter of Joachim McGregor, an archaeologist who disappeared in unexplained circumstances in the primeval forests of South America, finds her father´s notes and the tooth of a saber-toothed cat, and together with John Howard and his son Dan sets out on a voyage in the missing man´s footsteps. Alice is convinced that her father found a place where mystical animals live.
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Is there a plateau in the basin of the Orinoco which is the setting for Arthur Conan Doyle´s Lost World?
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Was Doyle´s story more real that he guessed?
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Is it possible that there really exists a place where prehistoric animals still live?
All of these questions will be answered in the heart of Amazon forest. The reader will share in the adventure and meet animals that died out millions of years ago. This journey to places where unknown danger haunts every step has an unexpected conclusion. Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us open the book and journey into prehistory ...
What you will find in the book:
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the most interesting animals of the Mesozoic, Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Eras
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notes and sketches from the journey
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a sketch-book with drawings
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studies of prehistoric animals
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more than 120 illustrations, colour paintings in oils, gouache paintings and sketches
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tasks and their solutions