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The lost world ; and the poison belt / Arthur Conan Doyle ; introduction by Conor Reid ; afterword by Joshua Glenn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, author.
- Series:
- MIT Press / Radium Age
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Challenger, George Edward (Fictitious character).
- Challenger, George Edward.
- Prehistoric peoples--South America--Fiction.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Dinosaurs--South America--Fiction.
- Dinosaurs.
- Scientific expeditions--Fiction.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Genre:
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- The Lost World
- Foreword
- Chapter I: There Are Heroisms All Round Us
- Chapter II: Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger
- Chapter III: He Is a Perfectly Impossible Person
- Chapter IV: It's Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World
- Chapter V: Question!
- Chapter VI: I Was the Flail of the Lord
- Chapter VII: To-morrow We Disappear into the Unknown
- Chapter VIII: The Outlying Pickets of the New World
- Chapter IX: Who Could Have Foreseen It?
- Chapter X: The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened
- Chapter XI: For Once I Was the Hero
- Chapter XII: It Was Dreadful in the Forest
- Chapter XIII: A Sight I Shall Never Forget
- Chapter XIV: Those Were the Real Conquests
- Chapter XV: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders
- Chapter XVI: A Procession! A Procession!
- The Poison Belt
- Chapter I: The Blurring of Lines
- Chapter II: The Tide of Death
- Chapter III: Submerged
- Chapter IV: A Diary of the Dying
- Chapter V: The Dead World
- Chapter VI: The Great Awakening
- Afterword: Challengers of the Known.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Contains:
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930. Lost world.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930. Poison belt.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-37378-5
- 0-262-37377-7
- OCLC:
- 1308408827
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