Lost in a Strange Land

Which Way Books #5

by R.G. Austin, Lorna Tomei

You are exploring an ancient volacano...

when suddenly the ground gives way and you plunge through darkness into a misty cave. There a giant billboard invites you to enter a fantastic world of monsters, elves, dragons, witches, and wizards!

Now you can explore an underwater kingdom on the back of a man-horse, or make a dangerous mission to rescue the Hoard of Gold, guarded by a venom-breathing dragon--and watch out for the nine-headed Hydra and the giant one-eyed Cyclops!

But if these adventures aren't what you had in mind, just go back and begin again! It's never too late to drink Witch's Brew, experience the strange powers of night-sight, or be bewitched by the magical music of island's deadly Sirens! Remember. You control your own adventure. So go ahead and choose! You can always turn back the page for more!

Genres: Fantasy, Gamebooks

133 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1982

About the author

Rita Golden Gelman and Nancy Lamb writing together as R.G. Austin

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I chose this book simply to fulfill one of the prompts on the 2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge, ‘A Choose-Your-Own Adventure Book’. It was owned previously by an older cousin and I suspect from her signature in the book, that she read it in grade school not long after it was published (37 years ago). So it is quite a juvenile book, the adventures are fewer than 10 pages each and there are pictures on about half of them.
To ensure I got through the whole thing, I wrote out the 133 page numbers and crossed them off as I went. It was about even between good outcomes and tragic endings, but all of a fairy tale sort, nothing gory, the gore is mainly implied (the hero gets eaten a lot). Naturally, my favorite storyline was that of the giant octopus, although it didn’t give me the option to choose to live harmoniously with the creature, but at least I didn’t have to kill it either. I’d give the book a solid 2.5 stars, but since they put the octopus on the cover, it earns the extra .5 star.

[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Picked this up at Goodwill. I don't know that I ever read these choose your own adventure books as a child. The writing isn't stellar, but it's a fun concept. This one involved a lot of fantasy creatures, and I think my childhood self probably would have liked it. Took about half an hour to go through all of the scenarios, and there were some good twists along the way. Also, I achieved the power to fly....

[Dionisia]

Found this gem in Goodwill. It's like running into an old friend. I loved these choose-your-adventure books when I was growing up.