Books with title King of the Copper Mountains

THE ADVENTURE NEVER ENDS…Nearly a hundred years have passed…and the last of the children finally has what he has always dreamed of…his wings. His destination is ahead of him, but first, he has other places to visit, friendships to renew, and lessons that are far deeper than any he has learned – lessons that will change him in form and appearance in the place where things are not always as they appear.One-by-one, he meets those he loves, and you read of the things they have learned, as well. As he moves over the Forest at the End of the World and The Ocean at the Edge of Forever, he flies towards the place where he has dreamed of going, and he finally ascends upward to the top of the Mountain of the King.What is there to learn on this journey? The deepest, most profound lessons of all. His brother Dylan, his father and mother, his grandparents, his aunts and uncles, family members, and his beloved cousins John Luke and Delaney are there, and he meets them one-by-one.He will also meet Patience, Grace, Gloria, Gladly the bear, Harold, Arnold, Turtle and others from his first and second adventures, and the places he visits this time will add to his stature, as he grows as tall as the messengers. Michael, his First Mate in The Forest at the End of the World, takes him aboard the Fairwinds, and they fly over Mercy Falls. He will eventually see Michael in his true identity: General of the King’s legions of messengers. As the journey continues, you read of the lessons that were learned by Dylan, Delaney and John Luke when they came to the Kingdom, as their experiences prepared them to ascend The Mountain of the King. Jacob also encounters old friends, but now they are moving towards their final forms as he flies closer to the Mountain. What is the revelation that waits for him at the top of the mountain? The answer is the most profound and loving experience in all of eternity, for the Mountain’s top is where eternity truly begins.

While the German botanist, Hermann Schultz, was lodging with a Greek family in Athens, he learned of a notorious Greek bandit so powerful that the government could not destroy his band and so cruel that he had decapitated two young girls he had been holding for ransom. Hadgi-Stavros, the King of the Mountains, was greatly feared, but he was also greatly admired by many of his countrymen. John Harris, an American who was Hermann’s fellow lodger, snorted in disgust as the landlord recited with admiration all the exploits of the bandit. Harris was so indignant he was unaware that when he spoke Photini, a young Greek girl who came to the house in order to learn foreign languages from the lodgers, looked at him with love in her eyes.

Excerpt:It was a chilling experience, that first glimpse of New Zealand! Hour after hour the great ship held on her way up the Cook Straits amidst scenery that made me shudder and that scowled me out of countenance. Rugged, massive, inhospitable, and bare, how sternly those wild and mountainous landscapes contrasted with the quiet beauty that I had surveyed from the same decks as the ship had dropped down Channel! I shaded my eyes with my hands and swept the strange horizon at every point, but nowhere could I see a sign of habitation—no man; no beast; no sheltering roof; no winding road; no welcoming column of smoke! And when, in the twilight of that still autumn evening, I at length descended the gangway, and set foot for the first time on the land of my adoption, I found myself—twelve thousand miles from home—in a country in which not a soul knew me, and in which I knew no single soul. It was not an exhilarating sensation.