![]() The Mangaboos accuse them of causing the earthquake, which has damaged many of their glass buildings. A crevice opens in the ground beneath them and they fall deep into the Earth.ĭorothy, Eureka, Jim, Zeb, and the buggy land in the underground Land of the Mangaboos, a race of vegetable people who grow on vines. Dorothy, Eureka (her cat) and Zeb are riding a buggy being pulled by a cab-horse named Jim when a violent earthquake strikes. Dorothy meets Hugson's nephew who is her second cousin, Zeb of Hugson's Ranch. The book was dedicated to Harriet Alvena Baum Neal, the author's eldest sister.ĭorothy Gale is gladly joining her Uncle Henry in California to visit relatives who live at Hugson's Ranch, after their vacation from Australia in Ozma of Oz. As in Ozma of Oz before it, and in some of the books after, Oz is not the land where the adventures take place, but the land the characters are seeking as a refuge from adventure. Very little of the story-six of the twenty chapters-actually takes place in Oz. Dorothy and others are swallowed up by cracks in the earth, and fall into a cavern, where they begin their adventures. Written shortly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and around the time Baum moved to California, the book starts with an earthquake in California. He was not entirely pleased with this, as the introduction to Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz opens with the protest that he knows many tales of many lands, and hoped that children would permit him to tell them those tales. This is one of only two of the original fourteen Oz books (the other being The Emerald City of Oz (1910), to be illustrated with watercolor paintings.īaum, having resigned himself to writing a series of Oz books, set up elements of this book in the prior Ozma of Oz (1907). It was published on Jand reunites Dorothy Gale with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. ![]()
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