{"product_id":"9781743342404","title":"The Cloud Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping historical saga and the story of a lost child, from the author of the bestselling \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eView from the Beach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo-year-old Jamie was lost in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges, presumed dead. But Jamie is not dead. Found by itinerant acrobats Bruce and Marge Mandale, he accompanies them on their travels throughout Australia. When he is ten he discovers the Cloud Forest, an area of temperate rainforest on the summit of Mount Gang Gang in tropical North Queensland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cloud Forest is a place of haunting beauty, but for Jamie it is far more than that. It is the Realm of Ultimate Desire, that place for which humanity longs and spends its life seeking. In it resides the dignity of the human spirit which we betray only at the cost of our own self-destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe forest weaves its lingering spell over the child and his descendants. A hundred years later another child enters the Cloud Forest and, through her actions, brings the saga to its conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173877137648,"sku":"9781743342404","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781743342404_p0.jpg?v=1763704699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781743342404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}