![]() ![]() Several children's classics are also echoed: as well as Pullman, the Narnia books kept springing to mind - the familiar formula of girl and boy on a life-or-death quest, talking animals, magic, the fact that Alex (like Digory in The Magician's Nephew) brings back from this numinous realm a miraculous cure for his seriously ill mother. This vivid eco-fable is part The Lost World and Shangri-La, part Carlos CastaƱeda and part Tomb Raider. Nadia's boy companion is a 15-year-old American, Alexander Cold, whose feisty writer/explorer grandmother has brought him along on an expedition to track down the fabled "Beast" that is terrorising prospectors and travellers in a particular area of the Amazon, and to contact a remote tribe of Indians known as "the People of the Mist". ![]()
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