The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb

When two young brothers, Archibald and Jockabeb, find and old leather map hidden in the forest just beyond their backyard, they can't help but sneak out one night to follow its path. So begins the first of the boys' amazing adventures. After a terrifying encounter with supernatural creatures, the boys meet a young Indian brave, Haktu, who shares with them the tragic story of how he was separated from his tribe and placed under an evil spell.

When Archibald and Jockabeb head to a secluded summer camp perched high in the mountains, they think they're in for a few weeks of camping and hiking. When they arrive, however, they find that they're the only two campers at Camp Bear Claw. They also discover that the area is plagued by an evil devil cat—or so the legend goes. As the boys investigate, they soon learn that the legend holds much more in store for them than they could ever imagine.

Whereas the settings for the first two books in The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb series were inside the United States, the third book shifts to Brazil. When the two brothers fly south to visit their Uncle Charlie, a retired Merchant Marine who’d travelled all over the world before putting down roots in the Amazonian Rainforest, they have no idea what lies ahead. As the boys and their uncle travel further up river toward a remote village inhabited by the Minauri tribe and its wise old shaman, Hutano, the mood shifts and takes on a more foreboding nature.