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You will love this book if you enjoy shipwreck and survival stories, lost cities and jungle travel, or old-fashioned adventure with brave schoolboys and close escapes. It suits families who like to read aloud together.
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What would you risk to see a city that shines like silver from far away? In this adventure novel, two American schoolboys on a pleasure cruise end up lost in the jungles of Yucatan. A stranger there tells them such a city exists and asks them to help him reach it.
James Otis wrote The Search for the Silver City for young readers, building it on real travel accounts of Central America. From one rumor he makes a tale of storms, fire at sea, caves, poisoned arrows and a climb over mountains. You follow Teddy Wright, Neal Emery and a cheerful engineer named Jake.
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- 1A lonely boy accepts a yacht cruiseFree
- 2Ambergris and pirates lead to a norther
- 3Fire at sea forces everyone into the boats
- 4A night at sea ends in a deadly landing
- 5A stranger in the forest makes a bold offer
- 6A hidden canoe trip ends at a glowing city
- 7A festival, a lost boat and a reckless grab
- 8Caves, an alligator and a mountain siege
- 9Greed and good judgment pull in opposite directions
- 10The conquered still guard their city
- 11A boy's eye view with a careful eye for nature
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A lonely boy accepts a yacht cruise
Teddy Wright is seventeen and sulking. His summer camping plan has fallen through because his friend is ill. He stays in a nearly empty house out of pure spite.
Then a letter comes from Neal Emery, a student at the same military school. Neal's father has just bought a steam yacht called the Sea Dream and plans a cruise of three or four weeks. Teddy gets permission and takes the first train in the morning.
Aboard, the boys meet Jake Foster, a stout, cheerful engineer. Teddy gets seasick off Martha's Vineyard and swears he will go home. After four days Jake says he has found his sea legs.
Teddy is impulsive and a little spoiled, but he is willing to learn. Small misfortunes can lead to the biggest adventures.
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What is The Search for the Silver City about?
It follows two American schoolboys, Teddy and Neal, whose yacht burns at sea. Cast ashore in Yucatan, they join a guide who is seeking a legendary city said to shine like silver, and they must flee from its defenders.
Is the Silver City a real place?
The story draws on a legend from Central America, which the preface traces to a priest of Quiche who told a traveler named Stephens that he had seen a shining white city. The city in the novel is fiction.
Who are Cummings and Poyor?
Byron Cummings is an American from Baltimore who has spent two years preparing to enter the hidden city. Poyor is his Indian guide, a silent, skilled scout who knows the swamp and the caves.
Who are the Chan Santa Cruz Indians in the book?
They are the people who live in the Silver City in the story. They speak Maya, guard their land with sentries, and treat white strangers as enemies because of old wrongs. The book's description of them is part of its fiction.
Is The Search for the Silver City easy to read?
It is written for young readers in plain, direct language. Chapters are short, each one moves to a new place or danger, and the dialogue between the boys keeps the story clear and lively.
Cite this edition
Otis, James. The Search for the Silver City. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-search-for-the-silver-city.
Otis, J. (2026). The search for the Silver City. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-search-for-the-silver-city (Original work published 1893)
Otis, James. The Search for the Silver City. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-search-for-the-silver-city.
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author = {Otis, James},
title = {The Search for the Silver City},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1893}
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