Published by Red Fox, part of Random House Children's Publishers UK
Format: Paperback
£5.99
Author:
Willard Price
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781849417464
£5.99
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EAN: 9781849417464
Published: 5 Jul 2012
'You are walking into the jaws of death'
Hal and Roger Hunt are on an awesome African adventure to track down the rare great white elephant. The brothers coolly tackle their task - despite doom-laden prophecies from mumbo, a Watussi chieftain - and as the temperature rises . . . the danger-level intensifies.
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Price knew all the right buttons to press to excite a young reader - exotic locations, nasty villains, wild animals and lashings of peril
- 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.
