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Willard Price

    28 juillet 1887 – 14 octobre 1983

    Willard DeMille Price possédait une profonde fascination pour l'histoire naturelle, l'ethnologie et l'exploration, des passions qui ont alimenté de nombreuses expéditions pour des institutions renommées telles que l'American Museum of Natural History et la National Geographic Society. Son travail puise directement dans ces aventures, offrant aux lecteurs des aperçus saisissants sur des cultures éloignées et des paysages sauvages. Le style d'écriture de Price apporte le frisson de la découverte sur la page, explorant la tapisserie diverse du monde à travers les yeux d'un voyageur expérimenté et d'un observateur perspicace. Son approche narrative rend les merveilles de terres lointaines accessibles et attrayantes pour tous les lecteurs.

    Willard Price Adventure: Volcano Adventure
    Key to Japan
    South Sea Adventure
    Underwater Adventure
    Gorilla Adventure
    Pièges dans la mer Australe
    • '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 . . .

      Willard Price Adventure: Volcano Adventure2013
    • Gorilla Adventure

      • 224pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      'You stand rooted to the spot or you run like mad' Hal and Roget Hunt head off for another challenging mission - this time to search for gorillas in the Congo jungle. But when the boys stumble across the evil trade in baby gorillas, someone seems determined to silence them once and for all.

      Gorilla Adventure2012
      4,1
    • Once again Hal & Roger Hunt are on board the Lively Lady, studying submarine life & searching for the treasure of the Santa Cruz which sank three centuries ago. But Skink is also on board & he will stop at nothing to get the treasure

      Underwater Adventure2012
      4,0
    • South Sea Adventure

      • 259pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      '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 . . .

      South Sea Adventure2012
      3,9
    • Diving Adventure

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Teens Hal and Roger Hunt stay in Undersea City, 200' below Australia's Great Barrier Reef, to find rare species for dad's Long Island collection, and ways to produce food from sea. They face coral cuts, man-eating sharks, killer whales, giant squid, other dangers. When they find sunken treasure, villain Kaggs starts a landslide, proves deadlier than sea creatures.

      Diving Adventure1978