![]() All decide that the dragons need to be relocated to the mythical land of the Elderlings, Kelsingra. The dragons eat a lot, perhaps including humans if they get hungry enough, and the rain forest is a miserable place for them to live. An agreement with one of the last full dragons meant that the Rain Wilds tribes are required to feed these deformed, some mentally challenged, flightless young dragons, an arrangement that all parties soon grow sick of. ![]() It features a small group of dragons, born deformed in a rain forest land called Rain Wilds, where humans have mostly forgotten dragons and are themselves sometimes born with a touch of reptilian mutations like scales and claws that make them outcasts and sometimes left to die at birth, if the mutations are too severe. It apparently is set in a fantasy world the author has built in others of her books, but I haven't read those and it didn't matter much. Read moreĪ very good fantasy with lots of YA crossover appeal. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them.Įmbarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make its way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild River - an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of 16, and Alise, a wealthy Trader’s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons’ uncertain ancestral memories. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampage - or die along the river’s acidic muddy banks. The few who survive cannot use their wings earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh.īut Tintaglia has vanished, and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at sea - to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species.īut too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon, Tintaglia. ![]() OL15177913W Page_number_confidence 98.05 Pages 566 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200919200133 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 650 Scandate 20200916024738 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007342594 Tts_version 4.For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. Urn:lcp:dragonkeeper0000hobb:epub:f0ce9f6c-ebf2-4129-b719-ada1be0c3b5c Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier dragonkeeper0000hobb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5w75sn50 Invoice 2089 Isbn 9780007342594Ġ007273762 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA19237 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:00:45 Boxid IA1940005 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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