The exciting adventures of Lady Trent continue!

Readers who were lucky enough to read the first volume of Lady Trent’s memoirs, entitled “A Natural History of Dragons,” are already familiar with how an educated, pedantic and purposeful girl named Isabella first has set foot on a historical path that in the future will lead her to the glory of the world's largest dragon researcher. In this second volume, Lady Trent recalls with remarkable candor the next stage of her brilliant (and often scandalous) career.

Three years after a fateful journey into the inaccessible mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Camhurst, in defiance of family and custom, sets off on a new expedition - to the war-torn Erigan continent, home to such exotic varieties of dragons as the grass-dwelling steppe snakes, bush-dwelling tree snakes, and the most mysterious and elusive of all, the tropical jungle swamp snakes.

The expedition is not easy. Accompanied by her old partner and the fugitive heiress of a noble family, Isabella must face oppressive heat, merciless fevers, palace intrigue, evil tongues and other dangers in order to satisfy her boundless interest in all things dragons. Even if it means going deep into the forbidding jungle known as the Green Hell, where her courage, ingenuity and scientific curiosity will be tested like never before.