The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle Paperback Book 9789357482486

The science fiction book The Poison Belt is written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle According to Challengers forecast the Earth is sliding into a belt of deadly ether that would likely suffocate humanity based on how it affected the Sumatran people earlier in the day He invites his Lost World friends to meet him at his property outside of London and tells them to each quotquotbring oxygenquotquot They see how peoples behavior becomes agitated and chaotic as they travel there Finally the final oxygen cylinder is depleted and they open a window in preparation for their demise They expect to perish but to their astonishment they survive determining that the Earth has now crossed the toxic belt In Challengers automobile they travel across the lifeless countryside before landing in London The world reawakens without them being aware that they have lost any time at all and they learn upon returning to Challengers home that the ethers influence was just momentary As a result of the enormous amount of death and destruction brought on by runaway machines and fires that occurred while people were sleeping Challenger and his companions are eventually able to persuade the world of...