An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
The Lost World
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Referenced in 5 episodes
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February 10, 2025
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Referenced when discussing Conrad's Heart of Darkness passage about traveling up the Congo River, noting it has 'echoes of Conan Doyle's book, The Lost World' with its sense of going into the jungle being like traveling back to prehistoric times.
August 11, 2024
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Referenced as a novel published in 1912 (the same year as the Piltdown discovery) featuring an expedition to find dinosaurs and ape men as missing links. The hosts note Conan Doyle lived near Piltdown and had met Dawson
May 15, 2023
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Mentioned as being influenced by the tradition established by She and King Solomon's Mines
December 15, 2022
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Referenced when describing the hideous iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, comparing the scene to Conan Doyle's adventure novel
September 12, 2022
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Referenced when discussing how people in the 1930s grew up reading Conan Doyle's stories about Professor Challenger and lost worlds with surviving dinosaurs