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    The Search for the Red Dragon
    The Search for the Red Dragon
    The Search for the Red Dragon
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Search for the Red Dragon

    Written by James A. Owen

    Narrated by James Langton

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    The Crusade has begun...

    "There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he said softly, shaking his head."A legend really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened eight centuries ago...We always thought it was only a story..."

    It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams, and became the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now, they have been brought together again to solve a mystery: someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial wings: "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well.

    The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underworld of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2008
    ISBN9780743569330
    The Search for the Red Dragon
    Author

    James A. Owen

    James A. Owen is the author of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series, the creator of the critically acclaimed Starchild graphic novel series, and the author of the Mythworld series of novels. He is also founder and executive director of Coppervale International, a comic book company that also publishes magazines and develops and produces television and film projects. He lives in Arizona. Visit him at HereThereBeDragons.net.

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    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the different views of the various myths and legends in this series
    • 4/5
      A good sequel to "Here there be Dragons". The story certainly confirmed some hunches I'd had about the earlier volume. I like how Owen is mashing together various myths, which have some preexisting similarities, into almost totally new versions. I also like how he has incorporated some of the real life aspects of his three main caretakers into their (as far as we know) fictional counterparts. I'm definitely interested in reading the next volume now.
    • 4/5
      "... To live one's span with the energy and vigor for life that one has as a child is a treasure worth seeking."

      A story well told and one that continues.
    • 3/5
      I'm not a huge fan of the writing itself - but the story is damn good. That's why I keep listening to them.
    • 5/5
      It's so good!!! I love how all of the fairy tales that we grew up with come together in here.
    • 4/5
      Fun fantasy series with well known classic authors and historical figures as characters, and bringing all kinds of myths, fairy tales and stories together in one big mess! Come visit the Archipelago of Dreams!
    • 3/5
      I had read "Here There Be Dragons" by James A Owen when if first came out and thought it was cute enough to try out the second book in the series now that it's been released. Owen does a nice job of blending together several legends, myths, children's stories and real life characters to keep the story moving but I found this one to be less engrossing as the first. It was a quick and easy read but not overly memorable. And it was a little too similar to "The Book of Lost Things" so I guess I'm a little burned out on books like this at the moment. Still, I'll probably pick up Book 3 (if there's one in the works) when it comes out, just out of curiosity.
    • 4/5
      The Search for the Red Dragon continues the story of John, Jack and Charles, caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica - a book with maps of the Archipelago of Dreams. But the Caretakers are much more than keepers of the maps. In this story, they travel back to the Archipelago to figure out why the children of the Archipelago are missing. I don't want to give anything away, so let's leave it at if you liked the first, you'll like this one as well.As with the first book, Owen weaves myths and stories into a very real world that I just didn't want to leave. Fortunately, there's a third book!
    • 5/5
      The 2nd installment of Owen's Chronicles series does not disappoint. Our friends from before return - John, Jack, and Charles, along with Aven, Artus and Tummler. This time the three Caretakers are called back to the Archipelago to help locate a large group of missing children. Jack is being plagued by dreams, ad then John and Charles go to see him, they all meet Laura Glue with a cryptic message from her Grandfather- the legendary Peter Pan.Once again Owen does a miraculous job of pulling together his already established tale of history in with other legends - Peter Pan, Sir James Barrie, Amelia Earhart, and more. His talent for tying together historical events, and pulling them into his world of dreams is second to none.