Tiger Adventure
By (Author) Willard Price
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
1st August 2013
6th June 2013
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Cats including big cats
813.52
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 18mm
211g
A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom 'The devil has killed our people' Hal and Roger Hunt are in India, investigating rare and dangerous animals for their father. But on the trail of the rare white tiger, high in the Himalayas, disaster strikes and the brothers realise they are walking into the jaws of death.
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.