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From School Library JournalGrade 5-8-Buddhist monk Tensing and his disciple, Prince Dil Bahadur, are journeying through the Himalayan peaks in search of healing plants when they come face to face with a tribe of once-fierce Yetis. These legendary half-human, half-ape monsters inhabit a lush valley heated by thermal pools and hot springs and are unaware that it's the toxic minerals in the water that has weakened them and slowed their rate of reproduction. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Alexander Cold; his intrepid writer/explorer grandmother, Kate; and his soul mate, Nadia Santos, daughter of the guide who led Kate and Alex on their previous expedition into the South American rain forest, described in City of the Beasts (HarperCollins, 2002),are off on a new International Geographic expedition. They are headed for the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, a small, isolated sovereignty in the Himalayas. Criminals are on the same flight; they intend to steal the Golden Dragon, the fabulous jewel-encrusted statue that is both a symbol and a guide for the country, and to abduct its king to interpret the statue's oracular predictions. All of these characters are about to come together in another breatht
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Isabel Allende [Allende, Isabel]
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, HarperCollins
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789402310207
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Fantasy, Adventure
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (7,922 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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