The boisterous, a_.[r;rogant professor C )hallenger, a r@
]e%pu*`te=\*d biologist a?(nd /^a.nthro?polog]ist, dares the London _Zoological Society to m
o?unt. %,an expe\[di=/tion to[#/` ver:ify his s pec]/tacular clai^m, withou;;t +p=hysical proof, *t hat his \,previous]@ ex*,[p: ?!ed=itio.n to@+\ the A\=;mazo#n=/?i#an
ba*si\=n found liv` *.e dinosaurs. Apart from h@?i^m and his ';sociali[te,' count/_erp-`
art, prof
`essor S(@ummer[+%lee, it /`^consists of exper(@^ience`d discover[$er Lord Ro-xb_;,-ury, the young reporter Ed Malo.,ne -wh[-o got#_= publicly str;uck down with C\#halleng \ er's umbrella at h[;[is arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Mal%one's new
s agency's :^boss's  `da*ughter, e!-ss(%%entially as?]! c[ondi\-@tions for -%%@#pu ?-tting up t[he mo$(^] ney. In Bra/zil$? t-hey a(/re jo.)i ned by  Jen_; n#if^?e/r's brother ]\$`Dav+([id and  local ^'gu/ide' Ma/,nuel Gomez. They ?soon d is)cov*er the\* din/#*o!saurs a ;re _#rea(`l .[and dan))/gerous ( , li.(ke giant spi)ders, b^ut loose t? heir ?++helicop,t, `e =)(r an_d thus are des[,perate fo!+,r a way\ d(o_
wn fr
/:om the isol ated pl^@ateau. T$
hey learn R_oxbury kn*(ew about th+@e f/:#ate o-\f Burton Wh ;ite, an explo\
rer w!hose diary they find,_ thus ;^presume to be dead, in searc\[h of %diamonds(*#-, and` confirmation of the local tribe being the le-: th(]al guardia /ns (*#of the plateau^/_'s se.+crets[?, but al#s?o get sur./p!rising help...