Professor Challenger The Lost World

Author : Charles Prepolec,J. R. Campbell
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770530539

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Professor Challenger by Charles Prepolec,J. R. Campbell Pdf

This original anthology, from the authors and editors who brought you the Gaslight Sherlock Holmes series, sees Challenger and his stalwart companions including the reporter Malone, big game hunter Lord John Roxton and the skeptical colleague Professor Summerlee, travel across space and witness the ravages of time, narrowly eluding a dinosaur’s bite only to battle against the invasive red bloom of alien foliage, and then plunge deep into the mysteries hidden within the Earth and reach out to the moon and into the heart of the unknown. Strap yourself in for chills, thrills, and challenges to the unknown in exciting new worlds and lost places with literature’s foremost scientific adventurer. Featuring stories by: Simon Kurt Unsworth, Stephen Volk, Guy Adams & James Goss, Lawrence C. Connolly, Mark Morris, Josh Reynolds, John Takis, Wendy N. Wagner, Andrew J. Wilson and J. R. Campbell. With an Introduction by Christopher Roden.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

"The Disintegration Machine" is a science fiction short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in 1929 in "The Strand Magazine." Unlike many of Conan Doyle's other works, this story is not centered around detective fiction but instead explores speculative and scientific themes

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473395664

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When the World Screamed (Professor Challenger Series) by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who was to eventually make Conan Doyle's reputation. A prolific writer, Conan Doyle continued to produce a range of fictional works over the following years. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0224012401

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The Complete Professor Challenger Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548186066

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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322457038

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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781537818009

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The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape. Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1853262455

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The Lost World and Other Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The protagonist of these stories is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of"The Land of Mist."

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Russell Davis
Publisher : Wordfire Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1680572121

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The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Russell Davis Pdf

Dinosaurs didn't exist in 1912, but Professor George Challenger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite character, believed they did. He ventured down the Amazon River and ascended a daunting plateau to prove that dinosaurs survived in Brazil.

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497608771

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Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear Pdf

“Certain to become a new classic of adventure beyond time . . . An unofficial sequel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World” (Prehistoric Pulp). Fifty years after Professor Challenger’s discovery of the Lost World, America’s last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for seventy thousand years . . . Then, if they make it, all they will do is face the prehistoric wonders, dangers, and terrors of the Lost World.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812967258

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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger—a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction—Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. “Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard—and in some sense established the formula—for the detective story . . . , so too has The Lost World set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . . ,” Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. “The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in The Lost World have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day.”

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518680585

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Professor Challenger - The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

THE LOST WORLD was Professor Challenger's first adventure for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ned Malone narrates the story (aka Dr. Watson). Ned's just been jilted by his lady love, Gladys, so he's up for a new adventure. Still, it takes Prof. Challenger some doing to convince the young man to go along - including a bit of fisticuffs! The story is a far departure from the Sherlock Holmes series - even in genre! This is Science Fiction. True science fiction, as it was designed by the likes of H.G. Wells! The Professor takes Mr. Malone - and others in the zoological field he's been able to cajole into joining the team - on a fantastic excursion to the forested mountains of South America! And thanks to Ned Malone, we're privy to the greatest adventure of all times! There are dinosaurs, ape-men, and danger at every turn! This is THE ORIGINAL Lost World! Jurassic Park has nothing on this story save special effects! If you're a True Fan of sci-fi, then it's time to get to know Professor Challenger! Come along for the most exciting read you've ever enjoyed!"

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409236788

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Professor Challenger I by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote five stories about the aggressive professor Challenger and his adventures. The Most famous are "The Lost World." Now we present all the five stories in two volumes.

Author : Richard Fallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108834001

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Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature by Richard Fallon Pdf

Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920

Author : Arthur Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798456691965

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The Lost World Professor Challenger by Arthur Doyle Pdf

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.