When they are left alone, Alex plays his grandfather's flute to relieve the tedium. After another soldier's death, this time at the hands of a Beast, they decide to send several people back with the wounded Joel Gonzalez - and they are given the task to send help back to the expedition. Later, Joel Gonzalez, the photographer's assistant, is attacked and nearly killed by an anaconda. One of the soldiers who is with them dies when he is shot by a poisoned dart. Everyone in the group feels uncomfortable, as if someone were watching them constantly. The group leaves by boat, traveling upriver toward their destination in Eye of the World. Alex soon befriends Nadia Santos, Cesar's twelve-year-old daughter.
Omayra Torres, who is coming along to vaccinate natives, and Cesar Santos, their Brazilian guide. Accompanying them is the famous anthropologist, Ludovic Leblanc, the beautiful Venezuelan physician Dr. When Alex and his Grandmother Kate reach the jungle, they join the rest of the expedition group: Timothy Bruce (photographer) and his assistant Joel Gonzalez. The reason Kate goes is to write an article about the Beast. Soon, they pack off to go to the Amazon with some professors and photographers. He is greatly saddened by the loss of his precious flute, but Kate gives him the flute belonging to his grandfather, Joseph Cold. She offers him pot and steals his backpack that contained his clothes, his money and his flute. In the process he meets a girl named Morgana, a homeless girl in her mid-20s. Once Alex arrives in New York City, and finds out that his grandmother had no intentions of collecting him at the airport and is forced to walk to her apartment, several blocks away.
Meanwhile, Kate announces that she will be taking Alex with her to the Amazon rainforest during his visit. His sisters, however are sent to live with their Grandmother Carla. Despite his desperate pleading, Alex is sent off to New York City to stay with his eccentric grandmother Kate Cold, a reporter for International Geographic Magazine. While his parents leave for Texas to try to treat his mother's cancer, Alex and his sisters are sent to live with their grandmothers. City of the Beasts begins with the story of Alexander Cold, who is 15 years old and going through a family crisis.
0 kommentar(er)
