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African Adventure

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

African Adventure

Contributors:

By (Author) Willard Price

ISBN:

9781782950165

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

Other Subjects:

Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories

Dewey:

813.52

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

192g

Description

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

Reviews

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 *

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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