- Adventure and adventurers, Underground areas, Archaeology, Fiction
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Roderick Gordon
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 599
- Publisher
- Chicken House/Scholastic
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780545138772
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