The Lost World/The Poison Belt

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Overview

Two Professor Challenger adventures chronicle--respectively--the professor's expedition to an ancient world inhabited by dinosaurs and ape-men, and his plan to save the world from the deadly gas he prophesies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877016208
• ISBN13: 9780877016205
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Professor Challenger Adventures

Two novellas introduced a new Doyle hero-and-chronicler pair: Professor Challenger and Edward Malone. The irascible and sometimes even violent Challenger triggers both stories --the Lost World by reporting on his solo finding of an isolated South American plateau populated by dinosaurs and missing links. --The Poison Belt by suggesting in a letter to the Times that something is amiss in the Earth's atmosphere. Reporter Malone is there to dodge Challenger's fists and capture the adventures on paper. Outside the confines of 221B Baker Street and the Holmes/Baker characters, Doyle's writing is at least as good, and the stories seem to have more life and action and breath. Ripping good fun that would be worthy of good modern movie adaptations.

Alone . . .

Another Doyle classic. Only now the stakes are infinitely higher. What would you do if you knew the Earth was doomed? Find out what our daring explorers do, and what it is truly like to be the only person left on the planet . . .