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''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (''El Reino del Dragón de Oro'') is a 2004 book by Chilean writer Isabel Allende. It is the sequel to ''City of the Beasts'' and the prequel to ''Forest of the Pygmies''. ==Plot summary== The plot is set in the Forbidden Kingdom, a remote Himalayan country. A Buddhist lama named Tensing takes his disciple, Prince Dil Bahadur, to the Valley of the Yeti to find healing plants that grow nowhere else. They are ringed with armed yetis just as they drink in the sights, but the matriarch saves them and says that the fast-dwindling yetis have lost their forebears’ mental prowess. The lamas help them milk the goats to feed their cubs, and it turns out that the local fountains are toxic. The beasts improve once they shun the founts, and to thank the strangers they show them the plants they want. Meanwhile, Alex Cold leaves Brazil for New York along with his grandmother Kate, an ''International Geographic'' reporter. He gives her the diamond eggs Nadia found near the Amazon and tells her to raise money for the People of the Mist—who he met in the prequel—as well as for other Indios. Kate suspects the eggs’ value and shows them to Isaac Rosenblat, a New York jeweler who confirms their unparalleled worth; he has never seen like-sized stones. Six months later, the Diamond Foundation is formed with the help of Ludovic Leblanc, an anthropologist who is Kate’s nemesis. Now tasked with writing about the Forbidden Kingdom, she takes Nadia and Alex with her despite her employer’s misgivings. At the same time, the world’s second-richest man—who is called the Collector—pays a crime lord known as the Specialist to steal the kingdom’s national treasure, a golden dragon with unrivaled magical skills. The Collector wants to use its gifts of prophecy to predict stock and make himself the world’s richest man. Soon after landing in Asia, Kate and her friends are caught up in a plot to kidnap indigenous girls. When Nadia, who is mistaken for a native, is captured along with her newfound friend Pema, Alex and Kate enlist the prince, his teacher, the kingdom’s forces, and the yetis to track down the abductees. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kingdom of the Golden Dragon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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