City of the Beasts · Book 3
Forest of the Pygmies
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 324
- ISBN-13
- 9780062254498
- Type
- novel
About this book
Forest of the Pygmies closed the trilogy the same year at 324 pages, sending Alexander Cold and Nadia Santos to the Congo rainforest for their third and final expedition, wrapping up Isabel Allende's YA adventure fantasy built around endangered ecosystems and indigenous cultures.
Its place in City of the Beasts
Forest of the Pygmies is book 3 in the City of the Beasts series. It follows Kingdom of the Golden Dragon. See the full City of the Beasts reading order.
When his mother is diagnosed with cancer, fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is sent to spend the year with his eccentric, larger-than-life grandmother Kate, a magazine writer who promptly drags him along on an assignment deep into the Amazon in search of a legendary, possibly mythical beast. Alongside Nadia Santos, the daughter of their expedition guide, Alex is pulled into a world of indigenous mysticism, ecological threat, and genuine magic that his rational, science-minded upbringing never prepared him for. The…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062254498