Fabiana Angelini, Foreign Rights Manager
"This wonderful book gives me endless pleasure each time I pick it up, with François Place's priceless art and its moving, very of-the-moment story."

One day in 1849, on the docks of London, Archibald Leopold Ruthmore acquires a strange tooth of impressive size. He is told it belongs to a giant. After several years of research, he concludes that these giants really do exist, forgotten by one and all. He then mounts an expedition, leaving behind the comfort of his English manor for the formidable humidity of a jungle in Asia. The voyage seems endless and the perils uncounted, but finally, exhausted and alone, Archibald reaches the Land of the Giants…