The Poison Belt : Being an Account of Another Amazong Adventure of Professor Challenger
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World, but this time Professor Challenger trades the jungle setting for a room in his own house. Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee arrive at the Professor's home, each with a tank of oxygen - the result of receiving a puzzling behest from Challenger via telegraph. Challenger and his wife usher them into a sealed room - in his research the Professor has predicted that a poisonous ether belt is about to reach the earth and quite likely cause the end of the humanity.
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- Bookseller
- Acme Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1347
- Title
- The Poison Belt : Being an Account of Another Amazong Adventure of Professor Challenger
- Author
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Hodder & Soughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Fiction, Literature *
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