The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1: The Valley of the Kings is the first of Bantam Books' Choose Your Own Adventure series based on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Written by Richard Brightfield with illustrations by Frank Bolle, and published in 1992, the gamebook adapts the "Egypt, May 1908" segment of Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal.
Publisher's summary[]
The curse of an ancient tomb...
The fabled City of Flowers...
A nighttime trip up the Nile...
A secret passage inside an ancient pyramid...and
A lesson about archaeology...
These are only some of the adventures you will have as young Indiana Jones.
The year is 1908, and you are traveling with your parents, Professor Henry and Anna Jones, and your tutor, Helen Seymour. Your father is about to give a series of lectures in Egypt. There you will explore the ancient land of the pharaohs and get to meet many famous figures in history, among them Lawrence of Arabia and famed archaeologist Howard Carter.
Will you encounter a cursed tomb? Or will you make an astounding archaeological discovery? Only you, as Indiana Jones, can choose your own adventure.
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Abraham (Mentioned only)
- Akhnaton (Mentioned only)
- Muhammad Ali (Mentioned only)
- Amanda
- Amenhotep (Remains)
- Amun-Ra (Mentioned only) (As 'Amen-Re')
- Anubis (Mentioned only)
- Carnarvon
- Howard Carter
- Dollope
- Pierre Duclos
- Habib
- Bassam Ghaly
- God / Allah (Mentioned only)
- Thomas Hardy (Mentioned only)
- Horus (Mentioned only)
- Imhotep (Mentioned only)
- Jesus Christ (Mentioned only)
- Anna Jones
- Indiana Jones
- Henry Jones, Sr
- Omar Khayyám (Mentioned only)
- Kheophren (Mentioned only)
- Khufu (Mentioned only)
- Thomas Edward Lawrence
- Maat (Mentioned only)
- Gamal Mahmed
- Menkaru (Mentioned only)
- Moses (Mentioned only)
- Nefertiti (Mentioned only)
- Osiris (Mentioned only)
- Rameses XI (Mentioned only)
- Ramses
- Ramses II (Mentioned only)
- Saladin (Mentioned only)
- Rasheed Sallam
- Helen Margaret Seymour
- Ship's Captain
- Mr. Smythe
- Mrs. Smythe
- Tutankhamun (Mentioned only)
- Zoser (Mentioned only)
Locations[]
Behind the scenes[]
This book presents fourteen narrative paths, leading to four different endings. The longest path is eighty-two pages and ends on page 78 after Indy, Carter, and Lawrence discover Amenhotep's mummy.