The Color of Distance, Amy Thomson
Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation–and terrifying assimilation–into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before.
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4.3 rating based on 843 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0441006329
ISBN-13: 9780441006328
Goodreads: 466371
Author(s): Publisher: Ace
Published: 7/1/1999
Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation--and terrifying assimilation--into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before.
4.3 rating based on 843 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0441006329
ISBN-13: 9780441006328
Goodreads: 466371
Author(s): Publisher: Ace
Published: 7/1/1999
Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation--and terrifying assimilation--into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before.