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Diving Adventure

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Diving Adventure

Contributors:

By (Author) Willard Price

ISBN:

9781782950172

Publisher:

Penguin Random House Children's UK

Imprint:

Red Fox

Publication Date:

1st July 2013

UK Publication Date:

2nd May 2013

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

813.52

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 199mm, Spine 16mm

Weight:

204g

Description

A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom 'He left them there to die . . .' Hal and Roger Hunt dive straight into danger on a specimen-collecting trip to Undersea City. But it's not just sharks and killer whales the brothers have to fear when they are plunged into the depths of another adventure.

Reviews

These are the books that got me reading -- Anthony Horowitz
Willard Price makes the pulse-rate soar * The Independent *
Price knew all the right buttons to press to excite a young reader - exotic locations, nasty villains, wild animals and lashings of peril -- David Barnett * Guardian *

Author Bio

Willard Price was born in 1887 in Peterborough, Ontario. He held a special interest for natural history, ethnology and exploration and made numerous expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society. He went on to edit various magazines on travel and world affairs and spent six years working in Japan as foreign correspondent for New York and London newspapers. He wrote fourteen adventure stories featuring Hal and Roger Hunt and travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.

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