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A journalist joins a brash professor’s Amazon expedition to verify claims of a hidden plateau where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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A journalist joins a brash professor’s Amazon expedition to verify claims of a hidden plateau where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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On a zoology expedition up the Amazon River, Professor Challenger makes an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was." ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Mild courtship motive; brief attraction, no explicit intimacy
Violence & gore
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Dinosaur attacks, ape-men battles, on-page deaths and bloodshed
Profanity
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Rare mild period exclamations; no strong modern profanity
Substance use
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Occasional social drinking among expedition members
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present
Religious content
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Passing period references; not central to plot
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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Brief Amazonian spirit folklore (Curupuri) as local terror
Political content
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Colonial-era explorer attitudes; racial stereotypes of the period
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content present
Abuse & suffering
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Animal killings; captivity and cruelty involving ape-men
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