South Sea Adventure
By (Author) Willard Price
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
2nd July 2012
26th April 2012
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats: Oceans and seas
813.52
Paperback
288
Width 131mm, Height 197mm, Spine 17mm
206g
A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom 'It's a lost world out there' Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas. But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda - a top secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant, and his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon . . .
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 *
Willard Price makes the pulse-rate soar * Independent on Sunday *
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.