Uganda: Gorilla researcher Imelda Walker begins an adventure that exceeds her wildest dreams. The Rwenzori mountains are surrounded by legends. Glaciers under the hot sun of the Equator, frozen waterfalls, forests in permanent fog, flowers as tall as buildings. Here, they say, is the source of the Nile and the lost empire of Kitara. On an expedition into these mountains, Imelda’s team encounters the ruins of a fallen civilization. All would be well if not for a series of unexplained phenomena that make the sober researcher question her own sanity. It’s as if the laws of nature had been rendered inoperative.
After a series of unsuccessful attempts to explain this, the biologist can no longer hide from the truth: her team has passed through the portal to another dimension. And it’s much too late to turn back.
by Thomas Thiemeyer
3-426-66291-4
500 pages, September 2010
