Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team—including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor—is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast.
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Another adventure for Águila and Jaguar
This is the sequel to Ciudad de las Bestias, and follows the main characters from that book on another adventure, this time in small country in the Himalayas.
It doesn’t quite capture the same magic as the first book, but the story is interesting enough and moves at a good pace.
Like the first book, it is a nice level of challenge that sits between a children’s book and an adult novel. Written well and a richness of language, lots of interesting words to discover here.
This book strays from m