Welcome to The Lost World Read 2009!

You’ve got hold of a book that is part of the UK’s largest reading campaign. We’re celebrating Arthur Conan Doyle’s 150th birthday and Charles Darwin’s bicentenary by bringing people across the UK together to read a classic adventure tale of a lost plateau, discovery and dinosaurs - The Lost World.

Investigative journalist Ed Malone joins a band of explorers sent to South America to prove that deep in the jungle there is a forgotten world where dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals still survive. What do they find - and will they make it home to tell the tale? It's the first Conan Doyle story featuring the larger-than-life Professor Challenger.

And, welcome to The Lost Book!

The Lost Book is a collaborative adventure in storytelling. It’s taking place online and anyone can join in. At its heart is an animated web series: the adventures of 21st century investigative journalist Aileen Adler.

There are loads of ways you can get involved and it won’t cost you anything. You can help us to write the story for the web series. You can join our special guest writer Jasper Fforde to reconstruct a stolen book in our weekly microstory competition. You can enter our soundtrack competition by creating your own music for the web series. You can produce your own animation.

And, you can read this book, tell us what you thought of it, give it away, and follow its journey. So join in, wherever you are, and have fun!

(Oh, and sometimes you’ll need a password to get into sections of www.thelostbook.net. Only people with a copy of this book will have the password, so these areas will be exclusive to you. The password is: the last word on page 150 of this book. Don’t forget!)

This book is going to travel to yorkshire-lass in Kent, then to Lorelei03 in the USA. When Lorelei03's finished reading the book will be wild released.

If you've picked it up - welcome to BookCrossing! I hope you enjoy The Lost World and then pass it on to continue its journey. It'd be great to find out where it has travelled to and read your review. You can stay completely anonymous if you prefer, or you can join BookCrossing (it's free) if you'd like to take part in this booklovers' community.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Travelling to yorkshire-lass in Kent. Happy reading!

Thanks so much for letting me be part of this! I hope to be able to read and send this book on its way again in about a week.

What a good read,it's been years since I've read anything by Arthur Conan Doyle,I read some of the Sherlock Holmes books when I was younger. I'd like to say thanks to TheLostBook team for organizing this because I don't think I would have picked this up and read it if I hadn't been involved in this Bookray, and I would have missed out on a very good book!
I will send it on the next part of its journey as soon as Lorelei03 PM's me with her address.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This is now on its way to Lorelei03 in the USA.Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and that you find somewhere interesting to wild release it!

Excited to be a part of this!!!!