Choose Your Own Adventure 10: The Lost Jewels of Nabooti [Paperback]

R.a Montgomery (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell (1981)
• ISBN-10: 0553143581
• ISBN-13: 978-0553143584
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,829,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

R.A. Montgomery is an avid adventurer, first and foremost. Whether in the mountains, or on the sea, or in explorations of the mind, he has found adventure in every aspect of his life. Teaching school, working in the administration of a top university, hiking in the Himalayas, or working in the Peace Corps in Africa, Montgomery has taken making choices seriously. Montgomery says, "There is never a day in which you are not confronted with choice. Some seemingly small choices can determine the path of the rest of your life. CYOA gave me a vehicle for examining all the impacts of choice."

He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1936. One of his first memories is sitting in his high chair and being frightened of Jell-O, which he thought was alive. He attended Hopkins Grammar School, the oldest private school in the country (founded in 1660), and Williston Academy. He got his college degree from Williams in 1958, and did graduate school at Yale and NYU.

Choose Your Own Adventure® books reflect his diverse interests and values. Montgomery states, "More than anything else, everyone should have the freedom to express themselves. Second to that, everyone should take risks and be willing to fail. Picking yourself up off the mat is the central business of life."

Today R.A. Montgomery lives in north central Vermont, where he is CEO of the small publishing house that has re-introduced the CYOA series. He travels frequently to Asia and Europe. Although his technical climbing days are kaput.

For games, activities and other fun stuff, or to contact R.A. Montgomery, visit us online at www.cyoa.com.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars A lame way to delay your answer, December 23, 2011

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Richard L. Orloski "Richard" (East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Choose Your Own Adventure 10: The Lost Jewels of Nabooti (Paperback)

I remember this very vividly from reading this book 20+ years ago.

There is one choice where you are on a plane ride sitting next to a scary man, who asks me to share a taxi when our plane lands in Paris. My response is "I don't know, where are you going" which the books tells me is a pretty lame way to delay my answer.

Isn't that the perfect answer to someone who asks me to share a taxi? What could be MORE reasonable than that?

Besides that, I have a lot of fond memories of this book.