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Adventure Double: Diving and Amazon Adventures - Softcover

Price, Willard

 
9780099487739: Adventure Double: Diving and Amazon Adventures

Synopsis

Willard Price's rip-roaring adventures are given a new lease of life in this stunning new two-in-one package. In Amazon Adventure, Hal and Roger Hunt take a pioneering expedition with their father into the uncharted waters of the Pastaza River, deep in the Amazonian jungle. They're looking for animals for their father's collection, but it seems someone doesn't want them to succeed and when their mother is threatened back home Hal and Roger are left to continue the mission alone. In Diving Adventure, Hal and Roger are in search of the marine wildlife that lives around Undersea City in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. They have some close encounters with sharks and killer whales but when the boys discover hidden gold in a sunken ship and their old enemy, Kaggs, appears, things start becoming even more dangerous.

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About the Author

Willard Price was born in 1887 in Peterborough, Ontario. He had a great interest in 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 travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.

From the Back Cover

Diving & Amazon
Dive into two action-packed adventures!
Hal and Roger Hunt are plunged into the depths of adventure in Diving Adventure when their specimen-collecting trip to the Undersea City takes a deadly turn.
And in Amazon Adventure the brothers are on a mission to explore uncharted territory in the Amazon, but when they go off course in the greatest jungle on earth, it s the survival of the fittest.
Willard Price makes the pulse-rate soar Independent on Sunday

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