 In "Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé" [Voyages And Adventures Of Jacques Massé], published in 1714 (imprinted 1710), Tyssot de Patot dispatched his heroes to a fictional country located near South Africa.While the book did not range much beyond the confines of the traditional Utopias of the times, it did, however, include "living fossils," giant birds and strange flora that survived from prehistoric eras, arguably making it one of the first modern Lost World novels.In his 1720 "La Vie, les Aventures et le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange" [The Life, Adventures & Trip To Greenland Of The Rev.