<p> Once again Alexander Cold and his indomitable journalist grandmother, Kate, are braving the mystical unknown, this time in the heart of Africa. Along with Alex's friend Nadia Santos and a photographic crew from <i>International Geographic</i> magazine, they have travelled to Kenya to work on an article about the continent's first elephant-led safaris. But when a missionary approaches their camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared, Alex, Nadia, and their group find themselves embarking on a dangerous mission to Africa's equatorial forest to aid a clan of Pygmies. For the Cold expedition is the tribe's last hope for survival in a world where poaching, corruption, and slavery run rampant. </p> <p> <i>Forest of the Pygmies</i> is the concluding volume of acclaimed author Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy, which begins with <i>City of the Beasts</i> and continues with <i>Kingdom of the Golden Dragon</i>. </p>