ISBN: 9781605201146

Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee to join him at his home outside London, and instructs e… mais…

Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. During their journey there, they see people's behaviour become excitable and erratic. On arrival they are ushered into a sealed room, along with Challenger and his wife. In the course of his researches into various phenomena, Challenger has predicted that the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether which, based on its effect on the people of Sumatra earlier in the day, he expects to stifle humanity. Challenger seals them in the room with cylinders of oxygen, which he (correctly) believes will counter the effect of the ether.The five wait out the Earth's passage through the poison belt as they watch the world outside, human and animal, die and machines run amok. (According to Victorian values or to Doyle's understanding of them Challenger's servants are left outside the sealed room, and they continue to perform their duties until the ether overtakes them.) Finally, the last of the oxygen cylinders is emptied, and they open a window, ready to face death. To their surprise, they do not die, and conclude the Earth has now passed through the poison belt. They journey through the dead countryside in Challenger's car, finally arriving in London. They encounter only one survivor, an elderly, bed-ridden woman prescribed oxygen for her health. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Myst & Thrill>Sherlock Holmes>Sherlock Holmes, Cosimo Core >1<

ISBN: 9781605201146

Paperback, [PU: Cosimo Classics], Though best remembered for his creation of the world's first consulting detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is also the literary father of the jack-of-all-… mais…

Paperback, [PU: Cosimo Classics], Though best remembered for his creation of the world's first consulting detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is also the literary father of the jack-of-all-sciences Professor Challenger, a forerunner of such modern-day adventure heroes as MacGyver and Doctor Who. In this 1913 novel, a followup to Challenger's first adventure in Conan Doyle's dinosaur escapade The Lost World, the professor and his team-Professor Summerlee, adventurer Lord John Roxton, and reporter Ed Malone-must contend with the very end of the world itself as planet Earth moves through a deadly region of space dense with poisonous ether. Fans of adventure drama and early science fiction will thrill to this forgotten classic from one of the pioneers of pulp fiction. Scottish surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War, 1900), sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies, 1922), and sometimes legendary (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892)., Classics<

2008, ISBN: 9781605201146

Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2008, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: The Poison Belt, Autor: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Verlag: Cosimo Classics, Sprache: Englisch, Schla… mais…

Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2008, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: The Poison Belt, Autor: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Verlag: Cosimo Classics, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Classics, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 124, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 142 gr, Verkäufer: averdo Belletristik<

ISBN: 9781605201146

The Poison Belt ab 21.49 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben, Medien > Bücher nein Buch (kartoniert) Hardcover;Belletristik;Anthologie… mais…

The Poison Belt ab 21.49 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben, Medien > Bücher nein Buch (kartoniert) Hardcover;Belletristik;Anthologien, Cosimo Classics<

2008, ISBN: 1605201146

Kartoniert / Broschiert, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Cosimo Classics]