![]() Taylor’s expansive world building and clever, thrilling plot are wonderful enough on their own, but they’re equally matched by the rich, well-rounded characters, brought to life by Roy’s expressive black-and-white illustrations. The tension builds at a tantalizing pace as the kids uncover secrets and escape danger at every turn. dead in the Fazian rainforest when a mysterious man with a clockwork hand. ![]() Meanwhile, the Expedition Society is hot on their tails, hoping to use Kit’s superior cartography skills-and ability to decipher his father’s tricky puzzles and codes-to find the treasure first. Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Mans Canyon by S. Then a strange man gives Kit a book with a secret code that leads them to half of a secret map their father made, and then to the hiding place of a fabled treasure more spellbinding than anyone could have imagined. the Treasure of Drowned Mans Canyon - 2nd Edition by S S Taylor (Paperback). ![]() Kit and his brother and sister-and talking parrot Amerigo Vespucci-struggle to get by. As danger of all kinds closes in on them, the Expeditioners must use all of. ![]() Among the most famous is Kit’s father, who went missing on his last mission and was mysteriously booted from the Expedition Society. Taylor sets her story in an alternate future of clockwork mechanisms, scant natural resources, an oppressive government, and new lands miraculously undiscovered-which makes explorers and cartographers national heroes. ![]()
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