Amazon Adventure
by Price, Willard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
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Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bridgetown Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- QA22961
- Title
- Amazon Adventure
- Author
- Price, Willard
- Illustrator
- Hartmann, Georg T.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition,Second Printing
- Publisher
- John Day Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo (up to 9½" tall)
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