失落的(,;世界

　　The bo\`ister/]-.ous, arr!\ogant pro!\+
fessor $Challenger, a repu,te$d biologist and anthropologist, da^ res `#the Lon`#don Zoolo).+gical S+ociety t#?)o mou nt an expedit.^ion ^](to v erify his specta+)-]cular claim, with/ ou):t physical proo,f , that @his previous! expedition to the Amazon!.\,ia^- \!n basi,.*n found live dinosaurs. ^[Ap\;art from- h-(im and his; &;#39socialite](!+9 counterpart, professor`+![ *,Summ=;erlee,( =!!it cons_+ist,s of experie)^(nce!d discoverer Lor+d Roxb+.ury, the youn%g r%#eporte %r Ed M;#alone -wh%!o got pu*bli/c:ly struck dow=+n *with ^C%[h\!(allenger's umbrella at h
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is arrival- and Jen[\.nifer Hol -mes, M% alo:-ne@:'s news.@ *ag## (en\@cy[9s bo-ss's daughter, essentiall.
y ;]-as cond%.itions for putt,in_`g ^#-up the^ money.) In Brazi%l they ar,e joined by [Jennifer's  brothe - r`^\ ]^Dav./id a!?nd lo!@!cal -#%&%^#39guide&+-#39 %Manuel Gom ez. T?h=$ey soon discover the din+.osaurs ar._e ;rea%l ]and $dang:erous, lik/
e gi_(@[ant spiders, but  loose their helicopter #and ]#thus are ;d,es=#/perate ! for a w_$ay?] down from the ]%iso;lated pla-/teau. They l?earn -*R- oxbury k.ne+w about the!% fate= of Burton Wh,.]ite, an explor=`*er whose[
di;%,ary they find, th us \:pres^
u)=!me to-([ b
+#e dead,  in=% search of diam/ond/=:s, and confirmat;:io/n ^ of the$)- local( tribe* bein+!g the let*)h*;al guard ians of `the pl `a.^[teau's se/@cre!..ts, but al%
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