To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers

( French - To-Ho le Tueur d'Or - 1905 )

novel by Jules Lermina

illustrated by Charles Clérice

translated by Georges T. Dodds

Published: Black Coat Press - trade paperback - 2010
ISBN: 193555834X / 9781935558347

Black Coat Press ( Barnes & Noble ) - Nook - 2012 ( French Science Fiction 66 )
BN ID:2940014970853

Black Coat Press ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2012
ASIN: B008MZR3LO


synopsis
During the bloody Dutch-Aceh War in Sumatra at the end of the 19th century, 10-year-old George Villiers is about to be sacrificed by a Malay witch doctor when he is rescued by To-Ho, the member of a peaceful tribe of ape-men who secretly live hidden in the jungle. George is then raised among the ape-men, and meets a reclusive scientist who has developed a compound, phoebium, which destroys gold, hoping to save the tribe from hordes of invading prospectors who threaten their isolation…

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