The Lost World | Characters
The novel opens with Ian Malcolm at the Santa Fe Institute; appropriate, because The Lost World is about man in Nature and Malcolm serves as Nature's spokesman, as well as being a bridge between The Lost World and its predecessor, Jurassic Park. As a mathematician, Malcolm is a master of thought in its most abstract form, but like many creative people he has a wide and almost contradictory range of interests: He is also a practicing humanist and mathematical missionary to people outside his field. So he is pulled into danger again when Levine disappears in a search for his...
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