African Adventure

Informationen zum Autor Willard Price Klappentext 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. "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 Zusammenfassung '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?

Product details

• Authors: Willard Price, Price Willard
• Publisher: Red Fox
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2013
• EAN: 9781782950165
• ISBN: 978-1-78295-016-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General, Africa, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Africa, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years