Lost on the Amazon

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Chooseco, 2006 - Design - 144 pages
THE AMAZON RIVER BASIN IS HOME TO THE GREATEST BIODIVERSITY ON PLANET EARTH. WILL IT YIELD UP ITS POTENTIAL CURES? OR SINK YOU IN ITS DEPTHS? Strange tropical diseases can wipe out whole communities in days. And in this age of modern travel, they can morph into worldwide epidemics in mere weeks. You are a young doctor specializing in such threats. Now you face a journey into the heart of the Amazon jungle where your medical team has mysteriously disappeared in the search for a cure. For hours you travel with the light of stars. Owaduga, could it be the Amazons who captured my friends? The canoe twists in the current. Be quiet You look into the darkness. Nothing The dugout bumps against a submerged log. There on the bank is a tall, strong looking figure. It is a woman. There are others behind her. Owaduga speaks. If you wish, why not ask her? If you ask these women for help, turn to page 11. If you ask Owaduga to speak for you, turn to page 33. YOU choose what happens next

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Section 1
17
Section 2
37
Section 3
59
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About the author (2006)

R. A. Montgomery was born in Connecticut in 1936. He graduated from Williams College and attended graduate school at Yale University and New York University. In 1975, he co-founded Vermont Crossroads Press to publish books for young readers. In 1977, the Choose Your Own Adventure series started when he published Ed Packard's interactive children's book Sugarcane Island. He wrote the second book in the series, Journey Under the Sea, using the pen name Robert Mountain. After selling his interest in the publishing house, he took the series to Bantam, where he, Packard, and others wrote the books. In 2000, Bantam stopped publishing new books in the series. In 2003, Montgomery and his wife founded Chooseco, which re-launched the series. He wrote over fifty books for the series including Gus vs. the Robot King, which was published in September 2014. He died on November 9, 2014 at the age of 78.

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