Those Amazing Dogs: African River Adventure

By Edwin Fenne

Traveling to an archaeological dig in Africa, three amazing dogs are separated from their owner. The dogs must team up with jungle animals for their survival and to find their way back to their owner. On their journey, they discover that they hold the key to saving the local rain forest from destruction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edwin Fenne
• Release date: Dec 29, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458143419

Edwin Fenne

Ed Fenne is a world traveller who enjoys learning new languages, cultures and exploring. He drew inspiration from his own three dogs when writing Those Amazing Dogs.

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Edwin M. Fenne's

Those Amazing Dogs:

African River Adventure

(Book One of the Those Amazing Dogs Series)

Created by Edwin M. Fenne

Written by Jeffrey E. Poehlmann

Illustrated by Carlos Morales

Published by Edwin M. Fenne at Smashwords

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Those Amazing Dogs Book One: African River Adventure

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Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Airport

Chapter Two: The Ride

Chapter Three: Lost in the Jungle

Chapter Four: Travel by River

Chapter Five: Going Upstream

Chapter Six: The Night Visitor

Chapter Seven: Digging Up Pyramids

Chapter Eight: Lost Treasure

Chapter Nine: Reunion

Chapter Ten: Putting the Pieces Together

Epilogue: The Journey Home

Glossary of Key Words

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Chapter One: The Airport

As the plane touched down on the runway, there were only three creatures awake in the vast cargo hold: A Lhasa Apso, a Pit Bull Terrier and a Yorkshire Terrier. The three dogs could hear the skidding sound of the plane’s large rubber wheels hitting the tarmac outside. They expected that they would soon be reunited with their owners. They looked forward to stretching their legs on the way to their hotel.

The flight had been long from New York to Lagos, Nigeria—all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. The dogs did not have a clock, but it must have been twenty hours since they left the United States. With only a short break to stretch their legs when they had to change planes in London, all three of them were feeling pretty stiff and very tired. Now they were at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport and the three dogs were anxious to get out of their crates.

Max, the Lhasa Apso, looked like a dusty mop lumped in the corner of his crate. He was three years old, the oldest dog in his group. Max had traveled more than both of his two companions combined. Lifting his weary head, he glanced through the dark cargo area to see how his friends were doing.

Oddie—the black Pit Bull Terrier—paced back and forth in his crate. He was anxious to get out. This pup had just recently grown into his frame and was filling out with muscles that needed to be stretched.

Eighteen month-old Molly was the baby of the group. She