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Indiana Jones
"A Dive Into the Ice Age"
Chapters 1 and 2 of
Indiana Jones and the
Unicorn's Legacy
Novel
Written by Rob MacGregor
1992
(Page numbers come from the mass
market paperback edition, 1st
printing, September 1992)
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Indy and other students at the Sorbonne
explore the hills of the Trois-Frères range in search of
undiscovered caves that may have once housed Ice Age tenants.
Read the "Summer 1924" entry
of the
It’s Not the Years, It’s the Mileage Indiana Jones
chronology for a summary of these two chapters
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This novel segment takes place in Montignac, France in 1924.
Didja Know?
This study is made up solely of Chapters 1 and 2 of the novel
Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy. These two
chapters are set in 1924, while the rest of the novel (except
for a 4-page prologue, set in 1786) takes place in 1928. The
title assigned to this short PopApostle study is a twist on the title of Chapter
1 of the book, "Diving Into the Ice Age".
Notes from
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones is a 2008 publication
that
purports to be Indy's journal as seen throughout The
Young Indiana Chronicles
TV series
and the big screen Indiana
Jones movies. The publication is also annotated with notes
from a functionary of the
Federal Security
Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, the successor
agency of the Soviet Union's KGB security agency. The KGB relieved Indy of his
journal in 1957 during the events of Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The notations imply the journal was released to other
governments by the FSB in the early 21st Century. However, some
bookend segments of The
Young Indiana Chronicles
depict Old Indy still in
possession of the journal in 1992. The discrepancy has never
been resolved.
The journal as published skips over this adventure, going from
the events of The Peril at
Delphi in 1922 to a letter received from Abner
Ravenwood in June 1925. Perhaps the intervening entries were
excised by the Russians for some reason when it was in their
possession?
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Indiana Jones
Roland Walcott
Mara Rogers
Professor
Dorian Belecamus (mentioned only, deceased)
Sorbonne students
Montignac villagers
Montignac gendarme
Didja Notice?
Chapter 1: Diving Into the Ice Age
This story takes place in
Montignac, a tiny commune near the base of the Pyrenees
mountain chain dividing southern France from Spain.
Page 6 relates that Indy and some student friends from the
Sorbonne in
Paris have
already explored a couple of caves around Le Tuc d'Audoubert.
Le Tuc d'Audoubert is one of the caves of the Trois-Frères
(Three Brothers) with prehistoric paintings on
its walls discovered in 1912 by three teenage brothers.
Indy believes the cave they are currently exploring may have
further chambers with wall paintings from the Ice Age. There
have been a number of ice ages in Earth's past. Indy is
thinking of the most recent one, referred to more formally
as the Last Glacial Period, of about 115,000–11,700 years
ago.
On page 8, Indy reflects that he'd heard that the pompous
English student Walcott spent most of his time drinking in
the boîtes. Boîtes is a French term for
"nightclubs".
Mara tells Indy she used to swim in the San Juan River in a
swimming hole close to
Bluff, Utah where she grew up. The San Juan River is a
tributary of the Colorado River in the southwestern United
States.
Page 12 indicates that Indy has not let himself get close to
anyone since his disastrous involvement with his first
archaeology professor nearly two years ago. That was
Professor
Dorian Belecamus in
The Peril at Delphi.
On page 13, Indy imagines himself sitting with Mara by the
fountain at the Place Saint-Michel, walking through the
Luxembourg Gardens, or losing themselves in the
Louvre.
The monumental Fontaine Saint-Michel is in the Place
Saint-Michel, a public square
in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Luxembourg Gardens is one of
the public gardens of Paris.
As Indy and Mara prepare to dive into the underground river,
Mara asks him if it is going to be like les Egouts, the
Paris sewers.
Tours of the Paris sewer system have been popular since
the 1800s to today.
Chapter 2: Subterranean Treachery
On page 22, Mara spies a unicorn painted on the cave wall.
Unicorns are mythological creatures that look like a horse
and have a single horn on the forehead.
Mara tells Indy she's leaving Paris next week to continue
school at the
University of Rome where she's earned a scholarship to
finish her Ph.D. in art history.
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