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The Professor Challenger series by Arthur Conan Doyle—anchored by The Lost World, The Poison Belt and The Land of Mist—follows the thunderous, stubborn genius Professor Challenger and the handful of companions who chronicle his astonishing adventures. Equal parts breathless adventure, scientific curiosity and late‑life spiritual questioning, these stories helped pioneer the "lost world" template, seeded modern dinosaur and prehistoric fiction, and pushed public conversation toward speculative science and, in Doyle’s later work, spiritualism. If you love big personalities, bold ideas, and tales that leap from rugged fieldwork to global stakes without losing a wink of wit, this compact set is a joyful, sometimes unsettling ride.
