The Lost City of Faar
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| Author | D. J. MacHale |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Pendragon |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Aladdin |
| Released | January 1, 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardback) |
| Pages | 400 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7434-3732-2 (first edition, paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Merchant of Death |
| Followed by | The Never War |
The Lost City of Faar is the second book in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale. Imagine a world covered entirely by water. People live on immense, floating cities and grow food on the sea floor. It's an idyllic world until Saint Dane unleashes a deadly poison. To save the territory, Bobby battles pirates on the surface and killer sharks below, all in hopes of finding salvation on a legendary underwater city called Faar.
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[edit] Plot introduction
Most of the book took place on the territory called Cloral, a planet that is entirely covered by water. The inhabitants of Cloral live on giant floating cities. The main city in this book is called Grallion. Grallion is responsible for growing food for Cloral. A territory called Zadaa is also visited.
[edit] Plot summary
After discovering that Bobby's parents are gone, he and Uncle Press leave behind the place where Bobby's house used to be, leaving on another adventure. Uncle Press drives his car to an abandoned subway station, the location of the nearest flume. They step up to the door marked with a star and shout "Cloral!" As Bobby makes his way through the flume, Uncle Press reminds him of the Cannonball.
As soon as Bobby gets to the end of the flume, he realizes what his uncle meant. As he land waist-deep in water, he is reminded of a water slide called the Cannonball. Uncle Press soon joins him.
With enthusiasm, Press exclaims that this is his favorite territory. Press puts on the Cloral clothes, which are wet suits. He then puts on an air globe, which molds into the shape of his head. He can now breathe underwater.
Uncle Press sends bait out into the water to attract the quigs away from them. Quigs are guardians of flumes for Saint Dane. They are different for each Territory. On Cloral, they are large, voracious sharks. As bait, Press attaches fruit to a water sled used to propel people through the water. Then they set off into the ocean.
En route to Grallion, Bobby and Press are joined by a native; a reckless, jolly, athletic traffic officer called Vo Spader. This Spader lead them to Grallion, where they assume identities as fruit harvesters. As such, they become friendly and learned with all Clorans.
Saint Dane's threat to Cloral is a poison; a mutation of the fertilizer that agronomers have been developing. It claims the life of Spader's father. Press and Bobby help Spader realize that he is a Traveler, and they search for the mythical city of Faar, which may be able to provide an antidote for the poison. The city has been underwater for generations, but their leaders decide to "transpire", or come to the surface, to save Cloral.
In the aftermath of the victory, Spader tries to get revenge on Saint Dane, a reckless act that leads to Press's death by gangsters from First Earth. After Press' funeral, Bobby and Spader Travel to First Earth, setting the stage for The Never War.
[edit] Characters in "The Lost City of Faar"
- Bobby Pendragon - Bobby is a boy from Connecticut. He was the best basketball player in his school, but right before the state semi-finals, while he was kissing Courtney Chetwynde, Uncle Press took him to Denduron. He has had a crush on Courtney since the 4th grade and she on him. His best friend is Mark Dimond. After awhile his journey led him through many dangerous missions. In the fourth book,(The Reality Bug) he found out that he was known as the 'Lead traveler' to the other Travelers.
- Saint Dane/Zy Roder - Saint Dane is an evil Traveler that wants to destroy Halla, so he can remake it how he wants it. All he needs is one territory, he says, and the other Territories will be like dominoes, falling after the first. He usually changes his name and appearance in order to pass unnoticed by the Travelers. In this book, he goes by the name Zy Roder, a pirate, and tries to attack Grallion. His plan in this book is to find and destroy Faar.
- Press Tilton - Press Tilton (or Uncle Press) is Robert "Bobby" Pendragon's uncle. In "The Merchant of Death", he told Bobby he was a Traveler and took him on an adventure. Travelers are able to traverse the Universe through flumes. Flumes are like highways through space-time. He dies in this book.
- Vo Spader - Spader is the Traveler from Cloral. He is an enthusiastic teen and is also the head Aquaneer of the Grallion. His father died because of a fertilizer that poisoned the food in some of Cloral. Saint Dane turned out to be behind the fertilizer and now Spader needs to learn to control his anger in order to defeat Saint Dane.
- Wu Yenza - Spader's boss, a good-looking middle-aged woman who later becomes Spader's acolyte.
[edit] Setting statistics
Some statistics of Cloral, taken from The Guide to the Territories of Halla:
- Territory Era: 70470
- Population: Approximately 7,540,000
- Cities: One city on land, 524 floating cities known as habitats. Among Them:
- Grallion (farming community)
- District of Rann (government seat)
- Katimba Laaq (recreation center)
- Panger City (financial center)
- Corrian (shipbuilding community)
- Faar (arts center)
- Magorran (manufacturing city)
- Landmass: one island, known as Faar, of approximately five square miles. The rest of the territory is covered with water
- Other notable lopography: the Corrian Trench, an eight-hundred-mile under-water trench that is too deep to explore
- Climate: tropical
- Currency: Eggles
- Principal Game Fish: Spinney, Cooger, Kooloo, Preel
- Time Measured In: Pecks (one peck = approximately 20 minutes)
- Notable Events: Rediscovery and reclamation of the City of Faar; desruction of the manufacturing city Magorran; "The Cloral Exposion," a giant world's fair type event where an entire floating city was created to host cultural displays and amusements from every city
- Traveler: Vo Spader
[edit] Everyday tools on Cloral
- Skimmer - Skimmers (Pictured here) are one-man water vehicles that is used on the open water, as well as on the canals that snake through the floating cities in Cloral.
- Water Sled - Water sleds (Pictured here) are used to propel swimmers under water in Cloral. It is a valuable tool while working the underwater farms. Spader and Bobby used these to get away from the quigs and also they used them to blow up the guns of Zy Roder's ship.
- Air Globe - Air globes (Pictured here) are clear devices that morph into a form-fitting, perfectly sealed hlemet that allows swimmers to breath and communicate underwater. These were used all throughout the book by Spader, Press, Bobby, and various others. Bobby's first time trying this on made him hyperventilate until Press told him to breath slowly.
- Spear Gun - The spear gun's (Picture here) primary use in cloral was to hunt spinney fish and to kill of the sharks and other unwanted others. In the book Press uses this to try and kill the quig shark but fails, moments later Vo Spader makes a clean hit with the spear gun which saves Bobby.
[edit] External links
| Books in the Series: | ||||||||
| The Merchant of Death · The Lost City of Faar · The Never War · The Reality Bug · Black Water · The Rivers of Zadaa · The Quillan Games · The Pilgrims of Rayne (forthcoming) · The Guide to the Territories of Halla (Companion Book) | ||||||||
| Characters: | ||||||||
| Bobby Pendragon · Saint Dane · Loor · Alder (Pendragon series) · Vo Spader · Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke · Patrick · Aja Killian · Kasha · Remudi · Nevva Winter Elli Winter " · Courtney Chetwynde · Mark Dimond | ||||||||
| Locations: | ||||||||
| Halla · Second Earth · Denduron · Cloral · First Earth · Veelox · Eelong · Zadaa · Quillan · Ibara · Third Earth | ||||||||
