13+ for ability, not content.
Novella.

Travelling down the Amazon aboard their giant raft-boat ('jangada') Joam Garral and his family are travelling down the Amazon, so that Minha Garral and her finace, Manoel Valdez, can be married in the presence of Manoel's invalid mother.
But Joam Garral, upright and dutiful citizen that he is now, has a dark past and it catches up with him in the form of Torres.

Arrested, Garral faces the death penalty and only a cryptic message held by Torres can prove or disprove his innocence.

Jules Verne fans.
Natural history aficionados.

The descriptions of the vast flora & fauna.

Verne waxes lyrical about the vast flora and fauna of the Amazon, but his frequent digressions from the plot can be frustrating for the modern reader.

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