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Time Machine #12
Time Machine 12: Search for the Nile
IT IS THE YEAR 1889. You have traveled back to the unexplored jungles of Africa. In your search for the source of the Nile, you carefully make your way across a log high above a raging river. Suddenly you lose your balance and slip! A man dressed in explorer's clothes reaches out to help you. Do you trust your life to this stranger or do you take your chances in the waters below? Your decision can lead you to safety or leave you stranded in time! ARE YOU READY TO FACE THE DANGER? The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.
148 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1986
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Robert W. Walker
194 books75 followersAka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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January 16, 2016
So many answers in this series could be solved simply by the point of view character reading an encyclopedia. If the series concept was based on your being a schoolkid in a time travel simulation or something similar it'd make sense, but why in the world are you risking your life by bouncing around in time to figure out the source of the Nile when you could just look at a modern map?
Additional problems in this particular entry to the Time Machine series are a lack of focus leading to lots of loops and rereading, and way too many hand-wringing portrayals of white people and their wicked ways corrupting the "noble savages" of [insert continent here].
Additional problems in this particular entry to the Time Machine series are a lack of focus leading to lots of loops and rereading, and way too many hand-wringing portrayals of white people and their wicked ways corrupting the "noble savages" of [insert continent here].
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