The Lost World by Robert Woodward, a Book Review

An excerpt from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe reads with uncanny authenticity. But Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea have been favoured above more powerful novels of hardships such as Patrick White's Voss. It is, in the end, the stark first-person experience that is most telling in these pages. Inevitably, why did people undertake these trials? In what cause? I tell you, wrote the explorer Absley Cherry Garrod. If you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.