Authors: James A. Owen, James A. Owen
ISBN-13: 9781416948513, ISBN-10: 1416948511
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Date Published: October 2008
Edition: Reprint
James A. Owen is the author and illustrator of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. He is founder and executive director of Coppervale International, an art and design studio that also publishes the periodicals International Studio and Argosy Quarterly, develops television and film projects, and is redesigning an entire town, among other ventures. James has written and illustrated two dozen Starchild comics, the Mythworld series of novels (published in Germany and France), and more. He lives in Arizona.
"There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven 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 Dragonshipsthe Red Dragonin a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underneath 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.
Nine years after their adventures in the Archipelago of Dreams, Jack calls a meeting with John and Charles, the other Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. A flying child comes to London to see James Barrie, with the message "the Crusade has begun." Children are disappearing from all over the Archipelago, and the Time Tower itself is crumbling. The three Caretakers set off in a flying Dragonship into a world populated by Greek myths, pirates, and Lost Boys. This second book in the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica (following Here, There Be Dragons) is spellbinding, with adventures, puzzles and charming hints of childhood literature. Age Range: Ages 12 to 18. REVIEWER: Deirdre Root (Vol. 42, No. 1)
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One: Nine Years in the Summer Country
Chapter One:The Angel in the Garden
Chapter Two:
The Reluctant Caretaker
Chapter Three:
The Lost Boys
Chapter Four:
A Dragon Restored
Part Two: A History Undone
Chapter Five:The Errant Knight
Chapter Six:
The Weaving
Chapter Seven:
The Great Whatsit
Chapter Eight:
The Friar's Tale
Part Three: The Search for the Red Dragon
Chapter Nine:Shadows in Flight
Chapter Ten:
The Tower in the Air
Chapter Eleven:
Chamenos Liber
Chapter Twelve:
Dante's Riddle
Part Four: Into the Underneath
Chapter Thirteen:Croatoan
Chapter Fourteen:
The Imperial Cartological Society
Chapter Fifteen:
Haven
Chapter Sixteen:
Echo's Well
Part Five: The King of Tears and the Queen of Sorrows
Chapter Seventeen:The Tunesmiths
Chapter Eighteen:
Shadows of History
Chapter Nineteen:
The Gilded Army
Chapter Twenty:
The City of Lost Children
Part Six: The Ninth Circle
Chapter Twenty-one:Shadows and Light
Chapter Twenty-two:
The Thimble
Chapter Twenty-three:
Unraveled
Chapter Twenty-four:
Second Star to the Right
Epilogue
Author's Note