Arthur Conan Doyle

Challenger & Company

The Complete Adventures of Professor Challenger and His Intrepid Team-The Lost World, the Poison Belt, the Land of MIS

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Produktbeschreibung

A fabulous collection of early Science Fiction and Fantasy from a master story-teller The complete adventures of the 'caveman in a lounge suit', the irascible, volcanic genius Professor Challenger and his stalwart regular band of fellow investigators into the frontiers of scientific improbability-Malone, the newspaperman, Lord Roxton, the soldier of fortune ever in pursuit of the next dangerous sensation and Professor Summerlee, Challenger's academic sparring partner. This volume , of course, includes the ever popular 'The Lost World', the predecessor to a varied collection of tales, in which man finds himself at odds with the ever hungry denizens of the prehistoric age. Enthusiasts will be overjoyed that Challenger and Co. gather together again for 'The Poison Belt' as mankind is doomed to almost certain extinction as a noxious miasma envelopes the planet. In 'The Land of Mists' our intrepid band take on the paranormal with excursions into the field of ghost hunting and the realms of spiritualism before Challenger and Malone must deal with an unscrupulous scientist who has succeeded in the invention of 'The Disintegration Machine' which he is prepared to sell to whichever government that is the highest bidder-irrespective of its appalling military potential. This collection concludes with 'When the World Screamed' in which the ever unconventional Challenger sets off on a perilous endeavour to prove that the earth itself is a living entity by giving it a painful shock! These are some of Conan-Doyle's best loved characters brought together in one roller coaster volume for your enjoyment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LEONAUR
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781846773716
• ISBN-10: 1846773717
• Artikelnr.: 23355065

Autorenporträt

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author, physician and spiritualist who created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes featured in a number of novels and short stories, most of which have remained in print for well over a century. Arthur Conan Doyle's best-known work includes novels: 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of the Four', 'The Stark Munro Letters' and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'; short-story collections: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts' and 'Fancies of Medical Life' and 'Danger! and Other Stories' and works of historical non-fiction: The Crime of the 'Congo and The Great Boer War'.

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