Young Indiana Jones & the Tomb of Terror [Hardcover]

Les Martin (Author)

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Publication Date: August 29, 1992

In 1913 in Luxor, Egypt, an ancient ring leads Indy to a hidden tomb and into terrifying adventures with a German archaeologist.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (August 29, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517089424
• ISBN-13: 978-0517089422
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,599,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read Book Even Though Old, March 11, 2004

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This review is from: Young Indiana Jones & the Tomb of Terror (Hardcover)

Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror by Les Martin is an exciting adventure, about a boy named Indiana Jones [Indy for short] and his friend Sallah, an Egyptian boy. When an archeologist looks suspicious Indy and Sallah decide to join in on the fun. This book is adventurous and teaches you a little bit about Egypt. This book takes place in the summer of 1913 in Egypt. Indy, an adventurous kid, meets Sallah, a trustworthy helpful Egyptian boy, who befriends Indy. They meet the evil Von trappen, a so-called archeologist. He secretly plans to melt a golden statue of king Tut, but Indy and Sallah decide to try and save the kings' statue. As you can see this is a must read.
There are hundreds of ways to tell you this is a must read book however I can only state a few. The first fantastic reason this is a must read book is because its sense of adventure, it constantly gives you cliffhanger chapters keeping you off the edge of you're seat! Secondly the characters just fit so well it makes you feel like you're with them in Egypt. Last but not least the action oh I can't even explain especially at the end when Von Trappen gets what he deserved. This is definitely a must read for anyone who loves foreign adventure, and a little bit of history!!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not continuous with the TV series, January 30, 2001

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Jean-Francois Virey (59500 DOUAI France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: YOUNG INDIANA JONES - TOMB OF TERROR (Hardcover)

Set in the Summer of 1913, *Young Indiana Jones and The Tomb of Terror* features two beloved characters from the Spielberg movies: Marcus Brody, the bumbling curator of Princeton University, who takes Indy on a trip to Egypt; and Sallah, the quick-witted native who helps Indy foil a German conspiracy to despoil the tombs of the Valley of the Kings and blow up the Suez canal.

This is the second installment of the series starting with *Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure*, a series which, I have just learnt, is not chronological, as three volumes- *The Titanic Adventure*, *The Pirates' Loot* and *The Lost Gold of Durango* are set in 1912 and early 1913, i.e. before *The Plantation Treasure*. (I would like to seize the opportunity publicly to apologize to Scooby Doo for my misspelling of his name in my earlier review of the latter book.)

Despite the presence of the two aforementioned characters, I found this volume less appealing than the first, in part because of the style, which resorts too frequently to incomplete sentences, and in part because of the supernatural elements, which somewhat undermine the didactic purpose of the series (all the more so as the historical note does not actually refute the legend of the curse of King Tutankhamun's tomb, ambiguously stating that "of course, respectable scientific opinion has dismissed this idea as nonsense".) I welcome the supernatural in the Indiana Jones movies, for their aim is to entertain, but the Young Indiana Jones adventures are supposed to have an educational vocation and therefore should stick more closely to reality.

My main disappointment with the book, however, was that it is not continuous with the TV series, and seems to have been written without any foreknowledge of its story arc. This trip to Egypt is presented as Indy's first, when the TV series has him meet Howard Carter in May 1908, during his excavations in the Valley of the Kings. Fortunately, as the series progressed, the authors added references to the *Chronicles*- such as the inclusion of Miss Seymour in *The Titanic Adventure*.