Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica 01 - Here, There Be Dragons
The Imaginarium Geographica
"What is it?" John asked.
The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow.
"It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and
parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose."
An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on
a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called
Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica --
an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy
tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon,
one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into
the Archipelago of Dreams. Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures,
the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of
the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one
another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two
worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues
that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these
men will one day become.An extraordinary journey of myth, magic, and mystery, Here,
There Be Dragons introduces James A. Owen as a formidable new talent.
Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica 02 - The Search for the Red Dragon
"'The Crusade has begun'...
"There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head.
"A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened
seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story." It has been nine years
since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams
and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought
together again to solve a mystery: Someone is kidnapping the children of the
Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl
with artificial wings: "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the
legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well. The only chance they have to save the
world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships - the Red
Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington
Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and
new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and
fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the
Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes,
and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be.
Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica 03 - The Indigo King
On a September evening in 1931, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium
Geographica, discover a plea for help on an ancient medieval parchment--which seems to
have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson! When they rush to warn him, Hugo is
abducted by fierce creatures called the Un-Men, who have mistaken him for the third
Caretaker, Charles.And in that moment, the world begins to change. The Frontier which
separates our world from the Archipelago of Dreams has fallen. Dark and terrible beasts
roam throughout England. No one can be summoned from the Archipelago. And worse, their
mentor and ally Bert has forgotten them entirely! The only hope to restoring the proper
order of things lies on a forgotten island--where a time travel device left by Jules
Verne must be used to race through history itself--from the Bronze Age, to the fall of
Troy and the founding of the Silver Throne. And in that single night, John and Jack will
find that the only way to save their friend and stop the chaos destroying the world is
to solve a two-thousand-year-old mystery:Who is the Cartographer?
Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica 04 - The Shadow Dragons
The Caretakers and the legendary Don Quixote must save the Archipelago in the fourth
book in James A Owen's Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica
Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica 05 - The Dragon.s Apprentice
Seven years after the events of The Shadow Dragons, John, Jack and Charles are
finally able to return to their beloved Archipelago of Dreams. But even as their return
is celebrated by old friends, new concerns shadow the reunion: the threat of Ecthroi,
primordial Shadow. And perhaps even worse, the apparent splintering of Time itself.
Now, the Caretakers must fight against their most fearsome enemy ever and attempt to
restore Time. They must journey through a forgotten Door from the destroyed Keep of Time
in order to seek out the Dragon's Apprentice. If they fail, it will mean the end of both
of the worlds. But success will carry its own price--a price that may be too high even
for the Caretakers to bear.
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