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I need to know what city will parker lives in the book the white mountains, can you help?
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"The White Mountains (1967)
The story begins in a small village in England, roughly a century after the Tripods arrived and conquered Earth. Will, the narrator, is 13, not quite a year short of the time when he will be "capped". His cousin, Henry, is one month younger. Although neither understands how the caps work, they know that the Capped are unquestioning and uncreative. Feeling uncomfortable with the idea of losing their creativity, the two follow the advice of a mysterious vagrant who goes by the name of "Ozymandias" and undertake a long journey to the "White Mountains" (actually the Swiss Alps, literally translated from the French Mont Blanc). After crossing the English Channel, they join forces with a young, inventive French boy, Jean-Paul (Henry anglicizes his name to Beanpole, owing to his tall, thin stature, and he is so referenced for the rest of the series), and head for the White Mountains. The boys go through the remains of Paris, abandoned and ravaged by some ancient war, and finally arrive at the General Quarters of the human resistance, having while en route, and mostly by sheer luck, destroyed a Tripod with old hand grenades (called "explosive eggs" by Henry) they had recovered from the ruins of Paris.
While written for a young audience — being rather short (under two hundred pages) and having an unsophisticated vocabulary — the book is swiftly plotted and filled with narrow escapes, except for a brief period during which the boys live at a manor owned by a wealthy French count. Will forms a strong relationship with the count's preteen daughter, Eloïse, and is heartbroken when she is chosen "queen of the tournament" at a festival hosted by the count; for the queen of the tournament must go off to serve the Tripods in their domed city (the Tripods, it turns out, actually have three cities: one in Germany, one on the Chinese coast, and one on the Panama Canal)."
"The White Mountains (1967)
The story begins in a small village in England, roughly a century after the Tripods arrived and conquered Earth. Will, the narrator, is 13, not quite a year short of the time when he will be "capped". His cousin, Henry, is one month younger. Although neither understands how the caps work, they know that the Capped are unquestioning and uncreative. Feeling uncomfortable with the idea of losing their creativity, the two follow the advice of a mysterious vagrant who goes by the name of "Ozymandias" and undertake a long journey to the "White Mountains" (actually the Swiss Alps, literally translated from the French Mont Blanc). After crossing the English Channel, they join forces with a young, inventive French boy, Jean-Paul (Henry anglicizes his name to Beanpole, owing to his tall, thin stature, and he is so referenced for the rest of the series), and head for the White Mountains. The boys go through the remains of Paris, abandoned and ravaged by some ancient war, and finally arrive at the General Quarters of the human resistance, having while en route, and mostly by sheer luck, destroyed a Tripod with old hand grenades (called "explosive eggs" by Henry) they had recovered from the ruins of Paris.
While written for a young audience — being rather short (under two hundred pages) and having an unsophisticated vocabulary — the book is swiftly plotted and filled with narrow escapes, except for a brief period during which the boys live at a manor owned by a wealthy French count. Will forms a strong relationship with the count's preteen daughter, Eloïse, and is heartbroken when she is chosen "queen of the tournament" at a festival hosted by the count; for the queen of the tournament must go off to serve the Tripods in their domed city (the Tripods, it turns out, actually have three cities: one in Germany, one on the Chinese coast, and one on the Panama Canal)."
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