Willard Price Hal & Roger HuntAdventure Series Collection (7 Books)

About

Willard Price was born in 1887 in Peterborough, Ontario. He held a special 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 a 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.

The Adventure Series chronicles the adventures of teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt as they travel the world collecting exotic and dangerous animals.

Amazon Adventure

No one has ever come out alive. Hal and Roger Hunt crash-land into the middle of a pioneering expedition to the unmapped regions of the greatest jungle on earth: the Amazon. And when their mission to explore the uncharted territory of the Pastaza River goes off course ...it's the survival of the fittest.

South Sea Adventure

It's a lost world out there. Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas. But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda - a top-secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant, and his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon.

Underwater Adventure

Never trust sharks . . .' Hal and Roger Hunt dive into danger when they join the Oceanographic institute as part of an underwater operation in the South Seas. And it's sink or swims for the intrepid brothers when their aquatic adventures bring them face to face with a foe even more deadly than the sea creatures of the deep.

Volcano Adventure

Fountains of fire, explosions ...it's hell let loose.' Hal and Roger Hunt embark on an earth-shattering expedition when they join forces with world-famous volcanologist Dr Dan Adams. And as their ground-breaking research of the volatile Pacific volcanoes hots up, the brothers' mission erupts into an awesome adventure.

Whale Adventure

No use fooling yourself. The sharks got him.' Hal and Roger Hunt are hoping to have a whale of a time when they agree to join the crew of a whaling ship. But as they begin working for the evil Captain Grindle, face dangerous battles with sharks, and then find themselves shipwrecked, the boys realise they're about to have a much bigger adventure than they bargained for.

African Adventure

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?

Elephant Adventure

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.