Discovery HSC English: Lost Worlds

Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his own kind - humans.
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A Jurassic nightmare confronts the crew of the U-boat U-33 when it surfaces in a lagoon on the uncharted island of Caprona. Yet, man-eating dinosaurs are the least of their problems. Out of fuel, lost, and with a mixed crew of English captives and German sailors struggling for control of the submarine, the castaways must co-operate or perish on the unforgiving island.
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes...
In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition--along with Amy--is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .

Ed Malone--a reporter for the "London Journal"--is persuaded to join the larger-than-life Professor George Edward Challenger on a scientific expedition to explore a hidden plateau in the depths of the Amazon. The plateau is a scientific dream: it appears frozen in a time when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. But as the expedition team plunges deeper into the forest, the danger mounts: they become embroiled in a war between a tribe of Indians and brutal ape-men, and are surrounded by terrifying prehistoric creatures. Now it is up to Ed and the Professor to get out alive.
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The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, beginning in 1936. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crime-fighter operating from the fictional African country Bangalla.

Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and dinosaurs who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society.

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend – and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon...
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When an uprising in Baskul forces a small group of English and American residents to flee, their plane crash-lands in the far western reaches of the Tibetan Himalayas. There, the bewildered party finds themselves stranded outside the protective borders of the British Empire, and discovers access to a place beyond the bounds of the imagination--a legendary paradise, the mystic monastery Shangri-La.

The Man Who Would be King is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves at the level of god and king over the primitive people of Kafiristan.
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Lovecraft's gripping tale of terror was initially rejected by his publisher is now considered a classic by horror fans. The disturbing, nightmarish story of a journey through Antarctica and a discovery of secrets hidden in a frozen mountain range has influenced writers and film-makers for decades

JUNGLELAND chronicles the epic search for a lost city buried somewhere deep in the jungles of the Mosquito Coast in Honduras.