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Original Title: | El bosque de los pigmeos |
ISBN: | 0060761989 (ISBN13: 9780060761981) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #3 |
Characters: | Alexander Cold, Angie, Kate Dawson, Nadia Santos, Brother Fernando |
Setting: | Kenya |
Isabel Allende
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.77 | 10892 Users | 356 Reviews
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Title | : | Forest of the Pygmies (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #3) |
Author | : | Isabel Allende |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
Published | : | August 1st 2006 by Rayo (first published April 2004) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Adventure. Magical Realism. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Childrens |
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Alexander Cold and Nadia Santos reunite for their final adventure in Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy. This time they are heading to the blazing plains of Kenya, where Alex's grandmother Kate is writing an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared.As the group investigates, they discover a clan of Pygmies and a harsh world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia must trust in the strength of their totemic animal spirits as they launch a spectacular struggle to restore freedom to the Pygmies and return leadership to its rightful hands.
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Ratings: 3.77 From 10892 Users | 356 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books Forest of the Pygmies (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #3)
Forest of the Pygmies by Isabelle Allende was a great book. I really liked how at the beginning Alexander and Nadia went to a future teller and got a prophecy because I like books like this where the main characters feel that they have to live up to the prophecy. In this book the International Geographic team goes to Africa but they end up going to the Forest of the Pygmies. The International Geographic team goes to a primitive village called Ngoube with a missionary who wants to find his twoSigh. I like Allende's other books but really dislike this series. All of my complaints about the second book apply to this one as well."Pygmies" isn't necessarily a pejorative term but it's not the most PC of terms she could have used. And when she's using "pygmies" rather than a specific ethnic group or some other more culturally sensitive term, it's harder to overlook her comparing the adults to children and comparing their children to dogs. I know she didn't mean it the way it sounds when
LOL when I was in the middle of the book I notice this was the last book from a trilogy. I like how Isabel describes any situation in the book because you can really imagine the scene, but definitely it's not the type of books I like or choose to read.
Love it! Couldn't Isabel Allende write another, and another and another and another......Alexander and Nadia, or better yet, Jaguar and Eagle have truly lived a life. So full of adventure and thrill and excitement. Mysteries and battles. How do they always come out alive!!LOVE IT!!(The only thing I am in disagreement about is that the missionary is laughed at, and Catholicism is ofended.)
This is actually the last book to a trilogy - & it was interesting, but I also didn't understand several of the references, because they were talking about the previous book, but I can tell you that book one, City of the Beasts, was an amazing book. Forest of the Pygmies was good though, & the series is an interesting & different genre.
Great series although this last book was possibly not quite so exciting as the previous ones. But it was still very enjoyable. And it's challenging me to open my mind to things which don't fit into the scheme of my long-held beliefs.
It was mildly amusing but I suspect the African terrain described was more like the Amazon forest except for the forest animals. The pygmy names Nana Asante and Ipemba-Afua surprising since they are Akan names from West Africa.
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