African Adventure
By (Author) Willard Price
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
1st July 2013
2nd May 2013
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
813.52
Paperback
272
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm
192g
A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom 'This man has promised to kill . . .' Hal and Roger Hunt are on the trail of a vicious man-eating leopard. Yet they are also being hunted themselves, by a merciless band of killers known as the Leopard Society. Can they trust their own tracker, Joro, despite knowing that he has pledged to lead them to their deaths
These are the books that got me reading -- Anthony Horowitz
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 *
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.