Through Forest and Stream: The Quest of the Quetzal
A boy and his naturalist uncle venture into the South American jungle in pursuit of the legendary quetzal, the bird whose emerald plumage once adorned Aztec kings. George Manville Fenn crafts a tale of old adventure, where the dense canopy conceals both致命的 dangers and the promise of discovery. Young Nat narrates their expedition from the moment the steamer carries them past Kingston Harbour into treacherous waters. The captain warns of fevers, hostile shores, and mysteries beyond mapping. But Dr. Dick presses forward, and Nat follows, into a world where tangled jungle gives way to rushing streams, where specimens must be captured and survival means outwitting both nature and men. The crew grows mutinous. The wilderness grows hostile. And always, somewhere in that infinite green, flies the quetzal. This is adventure fiction in its purest form: a coming-of-age story wrapped in exotic danger, leavened with Fenn's characteristic wit, and driven by the eternal human impulse to see what lies over the next ridge. For readers who long for the open road, untamed wilderness, and the thrill of the chase.
