Poison Belt (eBook)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
59 Seiten
Saga Egmont International (Verlag)
978-91-7639-278-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Professor Challenger #2 / Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other ...

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"e;Bring oxygen - Challenger."e; The gang from 'The Lost World' is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, 'The Poison Belt' (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series Conan Doyle displays, in the Challenger books, a knack for writing memorable characters and situations; his description of people going crazy from the ether will have you in hysterics.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Kopenhagen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• ISBN-10: 91-7639-278-3 / 9176392783
• ISBN-13: 978-91-7639-278-2 / 9789176392782