Fiction · 1913
The Poison Belt
Professor Challenger summons his companions from The Lost World — Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee — to seal themselves in his house with oxygen cylinders, convinced the Earth is about to pass through a belt of poisonous ether that will end all animal life on the planet.
Conan Doyle published the novel in 1913, the second of his Professor Challenger adventures, following The Lost World the previous year.
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1859–1930 · Victorian
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born in Edinburgh and trained as a physician there before practising in Southsea, where he wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887), the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine from 1891 made him famous; he killed the detective in 1893 and revived him in 1901–03. He also wrote historical novels, the Professor Challenger stories (The Lost World, 1912), military histories, and, in his later years, extensively on spiritualism. He was knighted in 1902.
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