One audience member, Sir Arthur Conen Doyle, extrapolated those tales into his 1912 novel, The Lost World - a book which captivated the childhood imagination of Michael Stearns.Ī world traveler who has brilliantly translated his explorations into such sonic masterpieces as "Sacred Site" and "Singing Stones", Stearns now transports us as listeners to a Lost World of rare beauty and unfathomable power. The British botanist on that trip returned to England and lectured extensively on his discoveries. But it was not until 1884 that the first European expedition reached the top of the greatest of all the region's crystal mountains, Mt. It was 1595 when Sir Walter Raleigh recorded his sightings of a "crystal mountain" during his exploration of Guyana. One of many strange and haunting tepuis that tower above almost impenetrable thickets of tropical rain forest, Mount Roraima stood in grand isolation for more than a million years before the first European explorers dared ascend to its forbidding summit.įour years after a 1990 National Geographic article reminded him about Mount Roraima and The Lost World, MICHAEL STEARNS realized a dream that began in childhood - to trek to Venezuela's "Islands in Time" and experience a natural domain that remains astonishingly remote from the ravages and complexities of modern civilization. Nine thousand feet above sea level, in the wild southeastern corner of Venezuela, an ancient sandstone mesa rises eerily out of dense, swirling mists and fog. Stearns has been able to incorporate the indigenous sounds of this prehistoric realm into an aural environment that allows us to share the anticipation, exhilaration, and surprise of this journey. Michael Stearns transports us to a "Lost World" of rare beauty and power.
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