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The Poison Belt

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poison Belt

The Poison Belt

By

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex - rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set largely outdoors in the wilds of South America. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to influence his writing.



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'. 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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 8, 2016
ISBN13 9781533690562
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 64
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 3 mm   ·   127 g
Language English  

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