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Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
This book has been translated by Dar Ward For Printing & Publishing
Alexander Cold and his best friend, Nadia, the heroes of Allende’s City Of the Beasts, are reunited in a new adventure.
This time, Alexander’s fearless grandmother and International Geographic are taking them to another remote niche of the world — a forbidden kingdom tucked into the frosty peaks of the Himalayas.
Their task: to locate its fabled Golden Dragon, a sacred statue and priceless oracle, before it is destroyed by the greed of an outsider.
With the aid of a sage Buddhist monk, his young royal disciple, and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors, and armed with the power of their totemic animal spirits, Alexander and Nadia fight to protect the holy rule of the Golden Dragon.
The plot is set in the Forbidden Kingdom, a remote Himalayan country.
A Buddhist lama named Tensing takes his disciple, Prince Dil Bahadur, to the Valley of the Yeti to find some healing plants that do not grow anywhere else.
They find themselves ringed by the yetis just as they drink in the sights, but the matriarch saves them and says that the fast-dwindling yetis have lost their forebears’ unparalleled mental prowess.
The lamas teach them to milk the goats so that they can feed their cubs, and it turns out that the local fountains are toxic.
The beasts’ health improves once they start shunning the founts, and in order to thank the strangers they give them the plants they have asked for.
Meanwhile, Alex Cold and his grandmother Kate, an International Geographic reporter, depart from Brazil for New York.
He gives her the diamond eggs that his friend Nadia has found near the Amazon and tells her to raise money for the People of the Mist—the South American tribe that he bonded with in City of the Beasts—as well as for other Indios. Kate, who questions the diamonds’ value, shows them to Isaac Rosenblat, a New York jeweler who confirms their unparalleled worth; he has never seen like-sized stones.
Six months later, the Diamond Foundation is set up with the help of Ludovic Leblanc, an anthropologist who is Kate’s nemesis.
Now tasked with writing about the Forbidden Kingdom, she takes Nadia and Alex with her despite her employer’s misgivings.
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
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