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Lord John Roxton (A fictional title derived from the English parish of Roxton, Bedfordshire) is a supporting character in the Professor Challenger series of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. He makes his initial appearance in the first entry of this series, ''The Lost World'', wherein he is a member of the expedition to the eponymous land of the title, and is a prominent character in some of the subsequent stories as well, specifically ''The Poison Belt'' and ''The Land of Mist''. The narrator of ''The Lost World'', Edward D. Malone, describes him as being tall and thin, with peculiarly rounded shoulders, skin which is "a rich flower-pot red from sun and wind" and cool, masterful blue eyes. Malone compares him to Don Quixote and Napoleon III as well as to the quintessential English sporting gentleman. Roxton greets the prospect of visiting the Lost World with delight, largely because of the prospect of bringing home a dinosaur as a hunting trophy: Roxton has travelled the world, as a hunter in addition to his pursuits as an explorer in the main bodies of the novels. Being an enemy of slavery, he made enemies in Brazil in his campaign against that institution, a fact which comes into play over the course of the plot of ''The Lost World''. The titular "lost world" is located on a remote South American plateau, accessed by using a felled tree as a bridge across a vast sheer drop. When Lord John Roxton and the other members of his expedition use this makeshift bridge to enter the Lost World, Roxton is the only one who takes the easy but dangerous option of ''walking'' across it; all the others straddle the tree and carefully inch their way across. The character was based on Conan Doyle's friend & British Consul/Irish patriot Roger Casement. == Other appearances == * John Roxton is also the name of a character used by the late Michael Crichton in his book The Lost World. Roxton is mentioned on page 19 as an "enthusiastic fund-raiser" looking for fossils in Mongolia. * Roxton features in Philip Jose Farmer's fictional biography of Tarzan, ''Tarzan Alive'', where it is claimed that he is a descendant of Lord Byron. * Roxton is a supporting character in the novelette ''The Found World'' in the collection ''Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate'' by Jim Smith. * Roxton appears briefly as a supporting character in the Doctor Who New Adventures novel ''All-Consuming Fire'' by Andy Lane 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lord John Roxton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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