City of the beasts
By: by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Contributors: Peden, Margaret Sayers.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Supernatural -- Fiction; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Valley -- Fiction; Grandmothers -- Fiction; Amazon River Valley -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.