Early lost world novels were typically set in parts of the world as yet unexplored by Europeans. Favorite locations were the interior of Africa (many of Haggard's novels, Burroughs' Tarzan novels) or inland South America (Doyle's "The Lost World", Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss"), as well as Central Asia (Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King", Haggard's "Ayesha, the Return of She", Merritt's "The Metal Monster", Hilton's "Lost Horizon") and Australia (James Francis Hogan's "The Lost Explorer" and "Eureka" by Owen Hall (pseudonym of New Zealand politician Hugh Lusk)).