Amazon Adventure - Hardcover
A classic thrilling adventure about two boys traveling down the Amazon with their father. A great story for the explorer in you!
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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, The Guardian
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- PublisherJohn Day Company
- Publication date1949
- ISBN 10 0381997324
- ISBN 13 9780381997328
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages242
- IllustratorGeorg Hartmann
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Amazon Adventure
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John Day Company
(1949)
ISBN 10: 0381997324
ISBN 13: 9780381997328
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Georg Hartmann (illustrator). Seventh Printing. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket is slightly edgeworn; spine sunned and darkened; otherwise it is clean and well preserved. Black-stamped green cloth boards; top front corner slightly bumped; otherwise a very clean and tight copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore. Seller Inventory # mon0000162251
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