The Lost World and The Poison Belt
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Overview
In 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, Doyle’s 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 cloud.
Joshua Glenn is a consulting semiotician and editor of the websites HiLobrow and Semiovox. The first to describe 1900–1935 as science fiction’s “Radium Age,” he is editor of the MIT Press’s series of reissued proto-sf stories from that period. He is coauthor and coeditor of various books including the family activities guide Unbored (2012), The Adventurer’s Glossary (2021), and Lost Objects (2022). In the 1990s, he published the indie intellectual journal Hermenaut.
Conor Reid is a podcaster and writer from Ireland. He has published widely on popular fiction and science, including The Science and Fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs (2018). He is the Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff Media as well as the host and producer of his own critically acclaimed literature podcast, Words to That Effect. The podcast, which has been performed live in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, tells stories of the fiction that shapes popular culture.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262373777 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 02/21/2023 |
| Series: | MIT Press / Radium Age |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 424 |
| Sales rank: | 822,007 |
| File size: | 570 KB |
About the Author
Date of Birth:
May 22, 1859Date of Death:
July 7, 1930Place of Birth:
Edinburgh, ScotlandPlace of Death:
Crowborough, Sussex, EnglandEducation:
Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885Read an Excerpt
“It is a marvel of imaginary adventure which Mr. Doyle has achieved.”
—New York World (1912)
“They who neglect to read it will have missed a highly entertaining flight of the Doyle imagination.”
—New York Evening Sun (1912)
“The book strikes a fresh note in the literature of adventure.”
—Chicago Record-Herald (1912)
“At once one of the most realistic and one of the most romantic of [Doyle’s] books.”
—The Living Age (1912)
“Highly adventurous and thrilling.”
—Chicago Tribune (1912)
“The last word in the sensational. No less interesting than the feats of Sherlock Holmes.”
—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (1912)
“It is the original and real thing, a gem of the Jurassic epoch.”
—Seattle Post Intelligencer (1912)
“Highly interesting adventure of a sort to stir the pulse and arouse the wonder of even the jaded novel reader.”
—New York Times (1912)
“Easily one of the best stories of the year. It is filled to overflowing with interest, excitement, and humor.”
—Baltimore Sun (1912)
“It is a book which excites the reader’s imagination from the opening page, and Mr. Doyle’s consummate descriptive art never found better use than in following the fortunes of his brave band of explorers into a country the like of which was never dreamed.”
—Boston Globe (1912)
Table of Contents
Series Foreword viiIntroduction xiii
Conor Reid
The Lost World 1
Foreword 3
I There Are Heroisms All Round Us 5
II Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger 13
III He is a Perfectly Impossible Person 23
IV It's Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World 33
V Question! 55
VI I Was the Flail of the Lord 73
VII To-morrow We Disappear into the Unknown 85
VIII The Outlying Pickets of the New World 99
IX Who Could Have Foreseen It? 117
X The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened 147
XI For Once I Was the Hero 165
XII It was Dreadful in the Forest 187
XIII A Sight I Shall Never Forget 207
XIV Those Were the Real Conquests 227
XV Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders 247
XVI A Procession! A Procession! 269
The Poison Belt 293
I The Blurring of Lines 295
II The Tide of Death 317
III Submerged 339
IV A Diary of the Dying 359
V The Dead World 375
VI The Great Awakening 395
Afterword: Challengers of the Known 409
Joshua Glenn
What People are Saying About This
“It is a marvel of imaginary adventure which Mr. Doyle has achieved.”
—New York World (1912)
“They who neglect to read it will have missed a highly entertaining flight of the Doyle imagination.”
—New York Evening Sun (1912)
“The book strikes a fresh note in the literature of adventure.”
—Chicago Record-Herald (1912)
“At once one of the most realistic and one of the most romantic of [Doyle’s] books.”
—The Living Age (1912)
“Highly adventurous and thrilling.”
—Chicago Tribune (1912)
“The last word in the sensational. No less interesting than the feats of Sherlock Holmes.”
—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (1912)
“It is the original and real thing, a gem of the Jurassic epoch.”
—Seattle Post Intelligencer (1912)
“Highly interesting adventure of a sort to stir the pulse and arouse the wonder of even the jaded novel reader.”
—New York Times (1912)
“Easily one of the best stories of the year. It is filled to overflowing with interest, excitement, and humor.”
—Baltimore Sun (1912)
“It is a book which excites the reader’s imagination from the opening page, and Mr. Doyle’s consummate descriptive art never found better use than in following the fortunes of his brave band of explorers into a country the like of which was never dreamed.”
—Boston Globe (1912)
“To anyone who has had the delightful experience of traveling in The Lost World with Professor Challenger the bare announcement that that brilliant and eccentric personage plays a most important part in this new tale will quite suffice. For who, having once met the Professor, would not desire to continue the acquaintance?”
—New York Times (1913)