The Lost World: quién es quién, cronología y lugares

Gladys rejects Malone’s advances, and her wish for a famous, courageous husband drives him to seek adventure.

McArdle assigns Malone to investigate Challenger’s disputed claims, and Tarp Henry helps him write a deceptive letter.

Challenger exposes Malone’s false scientific pretext and attacks him, but invites him back after Malone refuses to press charges.

Challenger shows Malone sketches, photographs, and a wing fragment supporting his account of surviving ancient animals.

Summerlee agrees to investigate Challenger’s claims, and Malone and Roxton join the expedition.

Roxton tests Malone’s courage, gives him a rifle, and prepares with him for the expedition’s departure.

Challenger unexpectedly arrives at Manaos after his sealed instructions prove blank, then takes command of the journey.

The expedition follows Challenger’s landmarks until the plateau’s red cliffs appear, though Summerlee remains skeptical.

The explorers cross onto the plateau by a felled tree, but Gomez destroys the crossing and strands them.

The explorers build Fort Challenger, observe living iguanodons, and narrowly escape an attack by pterodactyls.

Malone climbs a tree to map the plateau, encounters an ape-man, and identifies a central lake named Lake Gladys.

Malone explores alone, escapes a hunting dinosaur, and returns to find his companions missing and the camp bloodstained.

Roxton leads Malone to rescue Challenger, Summerlee, and four surviving Indians from the ape-men.

The explorers join the Accala in destroying the ape-men’s settlement, then turn their attention toward finding a way home.

After Challenger’s balloon experiment fails, Maretas’s map guides the explorers through a hidden passage to safety below the cliffs.

Challenger displays a living pterodactyl; Malone finds Gladys married and chooses another expedition after Roxton offers to share his diamonds.