Jeff’s Reviews > Will Poole's Island > Status Update

Extra points for a reference to Walter Raleigh's search for El Dorado.**

“It’s no great trick to discover an Englishman in the forest, Will. And it’s easy for a person to believe he is alone in a tree when in fact he is not. Do you understand?”

The memory of flight remained—the ecstasy of swimming weightless through the air—but the secret of how it was done escaped him as quickly and completely as water sinking into sand.