by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
All eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel want to do is watch television, but their explorer father takes them in search of El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold, and their long-lost mother.
For anyone fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and irksome estimates, this book introduces the flowers that smell of rotting flesh, the highest trees in the world, explorers who disappear…