The Lost World and The Poison Belt

The Lost World and The Poison Belt

MIT Press Ltd

The Lost World and The Poison BeltAuthor(s): Arthur Conan Doyle, Conor Reid\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: MIT Press Ltd, United States\nImprint: MIT Press\nISBN-13: 9780262545259, 978-0262545259\nSynopsis\nA heart-stopping adventure tale featuring a brilliant scientistone as insufferably pompous as Doyles most famous characterand his unlikely trio, and its apocalyptic sequel.\n\nIn 1912, the creator of Sherlock Holmes introduced his readers to yet another genius adventurer, Professor Challenger, who in his very first outing would journey to South America in search of . . . an isolated plateau crawling with iguanodons and ape-men! A smash hit, Doyles proto-science fiction thriller would be adapted twice by Hollywood filmmakers, and it would go on to influence everything from Jurassic Park to the TV show Land of the Lost. Its 1913 sequel, The Poison Belt, finds Challenger and his dino-hunting comrades trapped in an oxygenated chamber as the entire planet passes through a lethal ether .

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