Once there, they must fight natives and meet an immortal witch who attempts to kill them. ... She centres on a Cambridge scholar, Holly, and his adoptive son Leo. ... They, too, successfully fight natives who attempt to kill them ritually and manage to find the queen in the wild, surrounded by a nation of mutes who attend to her. ... The dominant themes in the two novels are heroism, courage and ever-present sense of danger. ... It is to be expected that the theme of the emancipated female would be in some form present in the fiction of the period. ...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School