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|title=The Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage

|sort=Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=416

|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

|date=August 2007

|isbn=978-0747578789

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Susan, Charles and Murray are New Yorker children send after the 9/11 for a holiday with their uncle Farley in Canada. Farley lives in a mysterious ship-like floating house which sails on the Sea of Time rather than the more usual Atlantic. In the second instalment of the ''Drift House Chronicles'' Susan and Charles return to Uncle Farley's house for another summer. Soon the Drift House is washed out onto the Sea of Time with Susan and Farley on board, while Charles is stuck in a tree with a talking parrot called President Wilson and a mysterious, powerful book. The adventure will take them to Huron Indians and the Greenland Vikings, the World Trade Centre and the Tower of Babel, with appearances by flying carpets, the Trojan Horse and people turning into pure light.

Thanks to Bloomsbury for sending this to the Bookbag!

The concept of the Lost Cities (or lost cultures in general), and particularly the diagnosis of the Vikings' demise in Greenland seems to owe a lot to the ideas presented in Jared Diamond's [[Collapse]].

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