In "African Adventure", Hal and Roger Hunt are on safari, tracking down a man-eating tiger, while they themselves are being tracked by a band of killers called the Leopard Society. "Whale Adventure" takes place on the high seas, amid the hardships and horrors of old-fashioned whaling techniques.
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.
