Elephant Adventure - Hardcover
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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About the Author:
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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"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 *
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- PublisherRandom House Childrens Books
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0224608789
- ISBN 13 9780224608787
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Elephant Adventure
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Jonathan Cape, London
(1968)
ISBN 10: 0224608789
ISBN 13: 9780224608787
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Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pat Marriott (illustrator). First Edition. Second printing from 1968 of a book originally published by Cape in 1964. The boards have a little discolouration to the edges, slight corner bumping and a small dent to the bottom edge of the front panel. The page edges have light browning. The pages are a little browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has some chipping to the corners with a little loss at the top and bottom of the spine and quite heavy edge rubbing. The front panel has a one inch closed tear to the top edge near the top right corner and there is some associated creasing. The rear panel has some discolouration and a half-inch closed tear to the top left corner. The spine has quite heavy surface rubbing with some browning to the reverse. Jacket and interior illustrations by Pat Marriott. Seller Inventory # 019706
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