While he rests however, one of the dwarves, Gravelbeard, runs to the castle in that same mountain range, revealing Nettlebrand, the Golden One, a fearsome dragon-like monster whose only purpose in life is to hunt, kill and eat dragons and his servant, Twigleg the Homunculus. Firedrake sleeps while the sun is up and the dwarves wait for him to wake up.
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After Ben and Sorrel argue about turning East too soon or not, the three end up in a mountain range full of dwarves. He and Sorrel also decide to bring Ben along with them. Only able to fly at night, Firedrake wastes no time wanting to leave. After finding Gilbert and providing payment, Gilbert hands over a map leading to the Himalayas, marking dangerous areas along the way. Ben, in repayment for this, then provides Sorrel with human clothes so she may go in disguise to find Gilbert while Firedrake stays hidden. Not long after landing at the docks of Hamburg, they save an orphan human Ben from dockworkers. After realizing that humans intend to flood the valley and the dragons living there are no longer safe, Firedrake sets off with the guidance from the eldest member of his clan (Slatebeard) to avoid the "Golden One" and to find the Rim of Heaven, a legendary location that is a safe haven for all dragons.įiredrake travels to Hamburg with his friend Sorrel, a forest brownie, to find Gilbert Graytail, a rat who specializes in making maps. Plotįiredrake is a young dragon who lives in a hidden valley outside of London with other dragons.
The novel became a massive success following its English-language release, and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks, reaching number one on the Children's Best-Seller list.Ī sequel, Dragon Rider: The Griffin's Feather, was published over a decade later, in 2017, and a feature film adaptation of the same name was released in 2020. Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, a brownie named Sorrel, and Ben, a human boy, in their search for the mythical part of the Himalayas mountain range called the Rim of Heaven to find a safe place for Firedrake's kin to live when the dragon finds out that humans intend to flood the valley where he and his fellow dragons live. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, Dragon Rider was published in English in 2004 by The Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic Inc. Their journey ends in the discovery of the Rim of Heaven, the defeat of Nettlebrand and avoiding the reignition of war between dragons and humans.Dragon Rider (original title: Drachenreiter) is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Once Firedrake, Ben and Sorrel realise that Nettlebrand is following their tracks, a race against time begins. Unbeknownst to the trio they are being stalked by a vicious, man-made, dragon-killing machine called Nettlebrand, who is intent on following them to the Rim of Heaven and hunting down Firedrake and all the other dragons there. Firedrake puts his faith in the boy, despite Sorrel's protests that humans should not be trusted. On the way they meet Ben, a 14-year-old boy, who joins them on their journey under the pretence of being an alleged ‘Dragon Rider’.
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