The Lost World and the Poison Belt by Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Lost World and the Poison Belt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262545259)

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The Lost World and the Poison Belt by Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Lost World and the Poison Belt

$19.95
The Lost World and the Poison Belt by Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Lost World and the Poison Belt

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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"Having assembled a crew of adventurers, the brilliant, blustering physiologist and physicist Professor Challenger journeys to a South American jungle ... in search of a lost plateau crawling with iguanodons. It's a ripping yarn-the first popular dinosaurs-still-live tale, prototype for everything from King Kong to Jurassic Park. At the same time, however, it's a philosophical novel, one that animates-in a thrilling, humorous fashion-the author's obsessive drive (also seen in his Sherlock Holmes stories) to reconcile the claims of logical reason and intuition. In their second adventure, Challenger et al. discover that the planet is about to pass through a belt of poisonous ether which will destroy all life on Earth. However, Challenger has transformed his wife's dressing room into an airtight chamber, so they can witness the end of the world. An epistemological thriller"--

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN-10: 026254525X
ISBN-13: 9780262545259
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 1.30d
By Arthur Conan Doyle
By Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and author who in 1887 introduced Sherlock Holmes, arguably the best-known fictional detective. He also wrote poetry, historical novels, influential gothic short stories, and more. Doyle's proto-sf series of Professor Challenger adventures include the novels The Lost World (1912), The Poison Belt (1913), and The Land of Mist (1926), and the short stories "When the World Screamed" (1928) and "The Disintegration Machine" (1929).

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