Characters: Professor George Edward Challenger and companions

**st barbara** · Jul 11th, '05, 12:03 AM

Its been a while since I read the Challenger stories. I read "The Lost World" years ago and about a year ago I was lucky enough to get a hardcover copy of the complete Challenger stories in one (hard cover) volume. I read it and then put the book away somewhere and (of course) I can't put my hand on it at this moment !

**Southern Cross** · Jul 11th, '05, 01:48 AM

Isn't that always the way?

**st barbara** · Jul 11th, '05, 04:06 AM

Actually I HAVE found the offending volume ! Hardcover 1989 Wordsworth Editions Limited. It contains "The Lost World", "The Poison Belt". "The Land Of Mist", "The Disintegration Machine" and "When The World Screamed". I THINK that I got it through "Amazon" ! 577 pages !

**AlHazred** · Jul 11th, '05, 04:40 AM

I have the paperback version of that. What I'm looking out for is The Annotated Lost World. I've heard it does a really good job of annotating the text, and includes many of the Harry Rountree and Joseph Clement illustrations from the original magazine serialization. Among other things, Doyle produced faked "photographs" from Challengers expedition. Remember, it was written as a series of correspondences from a journalist. Those I'd like to see.

**Southern Cross** · Jul 11th, '05, 01:19 PM

Same here.

**AlHazred** · Jul 11th, '05, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Southern Cross

Same here.

Just to whet your appetite, they have a group short of the four character, a photograph for which Conan Doyle and three of his friends posed. I believe the good Sir Dr. Doyle was "Challenger".