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100 1 _aMighels, Philip Verrill,
_d1869-1911
245 1 4 _aThe Crystal Sceptre: A Story of Adventure
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2019
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aAlso published under title: The king of the missing links.
500 _aRelease date is 2019-12-06
508 _aProduced by Tim Lindell, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"The Crystal Sceptre: A Story of Adventure" by Philip Verrill Mighels is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows the protagonist, who finds himself in a perilous situation after a tumultuous balloon ride leads to the crash in an uncharted jungle. As he navigates this strange land, he encounters a tribe of creatures he refers to as "Missing Links," marking his journey as one of survival and unexpected alliances. The opening of the narrative plunges readers into high-stakes adventure, beginning with the protagonist's desperate struggle to maintain control of a balloon threatened by a ferocious storm. Following a harrowing series of events that leads to his crash landing, he finds himself amidst a group of peculiar, humanoid creatures. These beings, a fusion of man and animal, initially observe him with curiosity and caution. The tension escalates when they are attacked by monstrous orangutans, forcing the protagonist into a fight for survival where he must choose sides and form crucial alliances. The emergence from this conflict sets the stage for his further interactions with the tribe as he attempts to understand their society and find a way to navigate this new reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aJungles -- Fiction
653 _aAdventure and adventurers -- Fiction
653 _aBallooning -- Fiction
653 _aJungle survival -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60860
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