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The Lost World: Summary - Online Term Paper

The Lost World: Summary

The Lost World by Michael Crichton is a great science fiction novel
about a group of scientists of different fields that go on an expedition to an
island to bring back a rich and stubborn scientist from a test expedition that
he cared about more than his life.
The "lost world" is an island off the coast of Costa Rica called Isla
Sorna on which a company named InGen (Short for International Genetics Corps.),
genetically engineered and contrived dinosaurs which were extinct since 65
million years. This island was used as an incubator for the dinosaurs before
they were shipped to another island close by called Isla Nublar. Isla Nublar
was leased by InGen for a biological preserve for ...

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clues which led him to the lost island. He set out on a test expedition
with his colleague to find out exactly if he was on the right island. He missed
his boat back home to the states. So, he called his friend, Dr. Thorne with his
satellite phone and left a message asking him to come down to the island and get
on with the expedition. Dr. Thorne, Ian Malcolm, Dr. Sarah Harding , and two
kids that sneaked in with them, went to the island to rescue Dr. Levine and
explore the behaviors of the dinosaurs on the island. When they get to the
island, they find out that they aren't the only ones that were looking for
dinosaurs. Three men led by Dodgson from another genetics company called Biosyn,
were also there, looking for dinosaurs to open up their own theme park.
Many things go wrong on the island. Some of the people get too close to
the dinosaurs and they get into trouble, Sarah Harding takes a baby from the
Tyrannasaurus's nest because it looked sick and the mother ...

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Added: 5/25/2008 06:57:04 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
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