![]() ![]() Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. ![]() Their mission, along with the others on their team-including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor-is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende. ![]()
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