Allende, Isabel.

City of the beasts / by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - New York : HarperCollins, c2002. - 406 pages :

Contents: Chapter 1 The nightmare -- Chapter 2 The eccentric grandmother -- Chapter 3 The abominable jungleman -- Chapter 4 The amazon river -- Chapter 5 The shaman -- Chapter 6 The plot -- Chapter 7 The black jaguar -- Chapter 8 The expedition -- Chapter 9 People of the mist -- Chapter 10 Kidnapped -- Chapter 11 The invisible village -- Chapter 12 Rites of passage -- Chapter 13 The sacred mountain -- Chapter 14 The beasts -- Chapter 15 The crystal eggs -- Chapter 16 The water of health -- Chapter 17 The cannibal - bird -- Chapter 18 Bloodstains -- Chapter 19 Protection -- Chapter 20 Separate ways.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.


English

0060557486 [newsprint]

2002022338


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