City of the Beasts

Name: City of the Beasts
Rating: 3.76 (48098 reviews)

by Isabel Allende Book 1 in the Eagle and Jaguar Trilogy series.

First published 2002

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Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold joins his journalist grandmother Kate on an expedition into the Amazon in search of a legendary creature known as the Beast. With Nadia Santos, the daughter of their local guide, he enters a world threatened by outsiders who regard both the rainforest and its Indigenous inhabitants as resources to exploit.

Alexander and Nadia discover the People of the Mist and develop identities connected to the jaguar and eagle. Their adventure combines ecological danger, magical transformation and a conflict over who has the right to define and control an apparently remote society.