What Can The Lost World Tell Us About Victorian Attitudes To Race Gender And The Environment? This book, though written in Victorian times, is still a quite modern type of story, as it can easily be adapted for modern times, for example, Instead of an expedition to a plateau it could be an expedition to another planet. Also the style in which is written is different to today's books, because in the Lost World a …
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…the first American pioneers. Anyway, if the same situation from chapter 14 in the Lost World occurred in modern times, there would have been an issue of great controversy. In conclusion, chapter 14 clearly shows that, along with other evidence in the book, that the white English speaking upper class people considered themselves to be superior to all other races and species, and we can learn a lot from this book as to the way people thought.