When the World Screamed - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Books -  - 9798696377803 - October 15, 2020
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When the World Screamed


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I had a vague recollection of having heard my friend Edward Malone, of the Gazette, speak of Professor Challenger, with whom he had been associated in some remarkable adventures. I am so busy, however, with my own profession, and my firm has been so overtaxed with orders, that I know little of what is going on in the world outside my own special interests. My general recollection was that Challenger has been depicted as a wild genius of a violent and intolerant disposition. I was greatly surprised to receive a business communication from him which was in the following terms: '14 (Bis), Enmore Gardens, Kensington. 'Sir, - 'I have occasion to engage the services of an expert in Artesian borings. I will not conceal from you that my opinion of experts is not a high one, and that I have usually found that a man who, like myself, has a well-equipped brain can take a sounder and broader view than the man who professes a special knowledge (which, alas, is so often a mere profession), and is therefore limited in his outlook

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 15, 2020
ISBN13 9798696377803
Pages 34
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 2 mm   ·   49 g
Language English  

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