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Born in Scotland in 1859, Conan Doyle is the author of the world-famous Sherlock Holmes mysteries. He was a doctor by profession and a natural history enthusiast. He was a member of the English Royal Geographical Society, where he first heard reports of the strange region at the

confluence of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. Inspired by the reports of the Schomburgk brothers, and those of the explorers Charles Barrington Brown and Everard ImThurn, Conan Doyle penned "The Lost World", which was eventually published in 1912. In the book, the protagonist Doctor Challenger leads an expedition to what is recognisably Mount Roraima where he finds fist-sized diamonds, prehistoric animals and a tribe of hungry cannibals. His party manage to capture a pterodaptil which is then taken to New York, where it promptly escapes a la King Kong. The book was later adapted to the screen in 1925 and 1960.
Other writers to have been inspired by Roraima include William Henry Hudson (Green Mansions), Jules Verne (The Orinoco Suburb) and Leonidas R. Dennison (Devil Mountain).

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