Cannibal Adventure
By (Author) Willard Price
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
2nd September 2013
4th July 2013
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
813.52
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
213g
A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom 'Just stay away from the island . . .' Hal and Roger Hunt are visiting New Guinea, one of the wildest islands in the world. But their adventure becomes deadly when the brothers discover that man-eating crocodiles and deadly snakes aren't the only things after their blood. They are pursued by an old enemy, whois out for revenge . . .
Willard Price makes the pulse-rate soar * Independent on Sunday *
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 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.