Amazon Expedition

Author: (English) William Prize / Yang Weixian
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "Who would resent us?" Hal couldn't understand. "Who is stopping our Amazon journey?" Hal, Roger, and their father—a zoologist—to embark on a journey to the Amazon to explore the Pastaza River Basin, a region unknown to most people, even unmarked on maps. But things didn't go smoothly from the start: Their father received a troubling anonymous telegram warning them of the dangers ahead; and Hal was also being watched by a mysterious, hunchbacked figure with red eyes. The two children quickly realized they had been abandoned in the Amazon jungle, isolated and helpless, fighting desperately against fierce beasts and hostile indigenous people. Yet what truly terrified them was their opponent.