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THE LOST WORLD AND THE POISON BELT - ARTHUR CON...

Having assembled a crew of adventurers  the brilliant  blustering physiologist and physicist
Professor Challenger journeys to a South American jungle ... in search of a lost plateau
crawling with iguanodons. It's a ripping yarn-the first popular dinosaurs-still-live tale 
prototype for everything from King Kong to Jurassic Park. At the same time  however  it's a
philosophical novel  one that animates-in a thrilling  humorous fashion-the author's obsessive
drive (also seen in his Sherlock Holmes stories) to reconcile the claims of logical reason and
intuition. In their second adventure  Challenger et al. discover that the planet is about to
pass through a belt of poisonous ether which will destroy all life on Earth. However 
Challenger has transformed his wife's dressing room into an airtight chamber  so they can
witness the end of the world. An epistemological thriller--

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