# Maple White — The Lost World character guide

> Maple White in The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the American, the American Maple White, Maple White Land

**First appearance:** 0005-iii-he-is-a-perfectly-impossible-person

## Who they are

American explorer whose diary and sketches first revealed the Lost World.

## In the story

### [IV: It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_world_se/chapters/iv-it-s-just-the-very-biggest-thing-in-the-world)

The deceased American artist and poet whose sketchbook and remains were found by Challenger; his drawings provide key evidence of the lost world.

### [IX: Who Could Have Foreseen It?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_world_se/chapters/ix-who-could-have-foreseen-it)

His pioneer camp and signpost are found; his companion James Colver's remains are discovered impaled on bamboo.

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