Lost world (genre)
From Conservapedia
The lost world genre refers to a genre of exploration and/or science fiction literature which sees the discovery of entirely new lands.
This type of writing was made extremely popular by H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885), in which Allan Quatermain discovers an unknown tribal kingdom in a remote, unexplored region of Africa. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912) has an exploration party uncover a South American land full of dinosaurs.
Some idea of the lost world genre is seen in earlier works by Jules Verne, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, which see the discovery of incredibly underwater and subterranean lands, respectively (though uninhabited by man).
