Professor Challenger, his wife, journalist Malone and adventurer Roxton have gathered with oxygen canisters to watch the final hours of the world. As a poisonous miasma apparently asphyxiates the human race, Malone feverishly writes his copy. More than just SF, this is Conan Doyle's post-First World War message of hope. Read with gusto. - Rachel Redford, The Observer In Doyle's short novel featuring Professor Challenger, the earth moves through a poisonous belt of the 'ether' - the stuff supposedly filling space - and the protagonists of the first Challenger novel, The Lost World, reunite to observe what seems to be the end of all life. ...Glen McCready ... supplies appropriate voices for the major characters, including the rumbling, bull-like Professor Challenger, his dainty wife, and the drawling Lord Roxton. Overall, McCready delivers the somewhat talky text with careful expressiveness, helping to bring it to life. - W.M. A(c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of The Lost World. '...bobtail of insignificant satellites, we float under the same daily conditions towards some unknown end, some squalid catastrophe which will overwhelm us at the ultimate confines of space, where we are swept over an etheric Niagara or dashed upon some unthinkable Labrador. I see no room here for the shallow and ignorant optimism of your correspondent, Mr. James Wilson MacPhail, but many reasons why we should watch with a very close and interested attention every indication of change in those cosmic surroundings upon which our own ultimate fate may depend." "Man, he'd have made a grand meenister," said McArdle. "It just booms like an organ. Let's get doun to what it is that's troubling him." The general blurring and shifting of Fraunhofer's lines of the spectrum point, in my opinion, to a widespread cosmic change of a subtle and singular character. Light from a planet is the reflected light of the sun. Light from a star is a self-produced light. But the spectra both from planets and stars have,...'
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; r&GIII THE BLURRING·-· OF THE LINES 3; CHAPTER II; THE TIDE OF DEATH ? ? ? 41; CHAPTER III; SUBMERGED ? ? ? 79; CHAPTER IV; A DIARY OF THE DYING ? ? · 117; CHAPTER V; THE DEAD WORLD · 145; CHAPTER VI; TUE GREAT AWAKENING ? 179
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Professor Challenger, his wife, journalist Malone and adventurer Roxton have gathered with oxygen canisters to watch the final hours of the world. As a poisonous miasma apparently asphyxiates the human race, Malone feverishly writes his copy. More than just SF, this is Conan Doyle's post-First World War message of hope. Read with gusto. - Rachel Redford, The Observer In Doyle's short novel featuring Professor Challenger, the earth moves through a poisonous belt of the 'ether' - the stuff supposedly filling space - and the protagonists of the first Challenger novel, The Lost World, reunite to observe what seems to be the end of all life. ...Glen McCready ... supplies appropriate voices for the major characters, including the rumbling, bull-like Professor Challenger, his dainty wife, and the drawling Lord Roxton. Overall, McCready delivers the somewhat talky text with careful expressiveness, helping to bring it to life. - W.M. A(c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of The Lost World.
'...bobtail of insignificant satellites, we float under the same daily conditions towards some unknown end, some squalid catastrophe which will overwhelm us at the ultimate confines of space, where we are swept over an etheric Niagara or dashed upon some unthinkable Labrador. I see no room here for the shallow and ignorant optimism of your correspondent, Mr. James Wilson MacPhail, but many reasons why we should watch with a very close and interested attention every indication of change in those cosmic surroundings upon which our own ultimate fate may depend."
"Man, he'd have made a grand meenister," said McArdle. "It just booms like an organ. Let's get doun to what it is that's troubling him."
The general blurring and shifting of Fraunhofer's lines of the spectrum point, in my opinion, to a widespread cosmic change of a subtle and singular character. Light from a planet is the reflected light of the sun. Light from a star is a self-produced light. But the spectra both from planets and stars have,...'
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; r&GIII THE BLURRING·-· OF THE LINES 3; CHAPTER II; THE TIDE OF DEATH ? ? ? 41; CHAPTER III; SUBMERGED ? ? ? 79; CHAPTER IV; A DIARY OF THE DYING ? ? · 117; CHAPTER V; THE DEAD WORLD · 145; CHAPTER VI; TUE GREAT AWAKENING ? 179
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings.