Arthur the King: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home *WATCH NOW ON AMAZON PRIME*

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND MAJOR MOTION MOVIE PICTURE ON AMAZON PRIME, STARRING MARK WAHLBERG, SIMU LIU, JULIET RYLANCE AND NATHALIE EMMANUEL*

'A shaggy dog story with a lovely happy ending' BBC Breakfast

When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, when he threw a scruffy but dignified mongrel a meatball one afternoon.

When they left the next day, the dog followed. Try as they might, they couldn't lose him - and soon Mikael realised that he didn't want to. Crossing rivers, battling illness and injury, and struggling through some of the toughest terrain on the planet, the team and the dog walked together towards the finish line, where Mikael decided he would save Arthur and bring him back to his family in Sweden, whatever it took.

'An incredible journey' Daily Telegraph

'Arthur latched onto an extreme sports team during the Amazon race - and what happened next will melt the hardest heart' Daily Mail

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4.4
11 reviews
Madelé van der Merwe
December 16, 2018
Roughly a third of this book was a fairly good read. The author is passionate about adventure racing and it shows. I found the parts describing the media hype quite tedious. Not the best-written book. A lot of repetition from start to end.
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A Google user
September 1, 2016
I'm not even a dog owner but I really enjoyed this book. The dog in it is absolutely amazing. You can get an extract by Googling the following: "The day I met Arthur, the dog who walked through the jungle to stay by me" and/or "Arthur's white Christmas: Stray dog who was adopted by Swedish adventure team on Amazon trek enjoys first Christmas in his very snowy new home" for a couple of newspaper articles about this story.
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Gillian Eshelby
January 18, 2019
If you love dogs,you will love this book.
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About the author

Mikael Lindnord is an adventure racer and race planner. As a boy he wanted to be an ice hockey player, but failing to make a professional team at the age of 17 set him on a different path. After doing military service he became an adventure racer and has been travelling the world and racing in the AR World Series ever since. When not racing he lives with his wife, children and, of course, his dog Arthur.

Arthur is a mongrel from somewhere in Ecuador. He likes meatballs, long runs with Mikael and relaxing with his family in Sweden.

As an editor of non-fiction at major publishing houses, Val Hudson published many ground-breaking bestsellers. Now a full-time writer, she is the author of a wide range of non-fiction and, as Chloe Bennet, the 'Boywatching' series of novels for young teens.

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