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Indiana Jones
"The Runaway Adventure"
Short story
The Young Indiana Jones
Chronicles #1
Welsh Publishing Group
Written by Amanda Agee
1992
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Indy rescues a Chinese girl from marriage.
Read the
story summary at the
Indiana Jones Wiki
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This story of Little Indy would seem to take
place shortly after "The
Yin-Yang Principle". The opening paragraph of the story
states that Indy and his mother and Miss Seymour are travelling
by train from
Beijing (Peking) to
Shanghai to meet up with his
father, but the train breaks down on the way and they are forced
to spend the night at an inn in a village. In
"The Yin-Yang Principle",
the Jones' arrived in Peking from India. Henry Jones, Sr.
remained in Peking to learn of his host's (Fen Yu) translations
of Western literature while the rest of them, plus Fen Yu's
assistant Li Shung Sui as translator, went on a multi-day
sightseeing tour of the "nearby" area, including Shanghai. In
the course of that episode, Indy becomes ill with typhoid and he
and his mother and tutor are laid up at the home of a peasant
family for several days while he is treated and recovers. The
episode ends with the Jones party having a joyful feast with the
peasant family in their hut.
Presumably, the Jones party would have headed back to
Peking the next day, setting the stage for our current story. We
can imagine that Professor Jones moved on to Shanghai for further
learning opportunities when his family was late in
returning, Fen Yu filled them in, Li Shung Sui remained in
Peking with his master, and Indy, his mother, and Miss Seymour
headed on to Shanghai along with a new, hired, interpreter,
Lin Feng, leading into the opening of this story.
Didja Know?
This short story appeared in the first-and-only issue of
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles magazine.
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
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. The FSB 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 time in Indy's
life. In fact, it goes from September 1909 to June 1912...a
period of almost three
years! Are we to believe that Indy made no journal entries that
entire time? Perhaps the entries were excised by the Russians
for some reason when it was in their possession?
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Indiana Jones
Anna Jones (mentioned only)
Helen Seymour
Henry Jones, Sr.
(mentioned only)
Lin Feng
marketplace woman
cabbage cart owner
Yang Wei
