Arctic Adventure [Paperback]

Willard Price (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books (October 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224018191
• ISBN-13: 978-0224018197
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,222,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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4.0 out of 5 stars many tense adventures of catching various arctic animals, November 2, 1998

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This review is from: Arctic Adventure (Paperback)

Hal (20 years old) and Roger Hunt (15 years old), sons of a world-famous zoologist, are sent to Greenland on a daring expedition. Their father want's them to collect as many arctic animals as they can get and transport them right in New York. He intend's to sell them to the zoo which can take the best care of them. With a boy they met, named Olrik and a polar bear Nanook they tamed, they set off for the ice cap in pursuit of the rarest creatures of the Arctic. But the ice cap holds many dangers so the expedition becomes very complicated. The Hunts are always in life danger not just because of dangerous animals but also because crime here goes undetected. A despicable hunter named Zeb is out to harm them. They are suppose to bring a walrus, the polar bear, big bearded seal, sea lion, musk ox, narwhal, wild reindeer, caribou, humpback whale, sea otter and the Greenland shark. Although knowledge is not everything, luck is very important. They caught all of them but everyone was caught in a very strange way; for instance, they caught the bear by sitting on him or a narwhal when he got stuck in their kayak and was haled to the shore. Every animal needed a different procedure none of them deffinetly wasn't easy. Whet they caught everything they could in Greenland they set of to Alaska. It was a sad farewell especially from Olrik and one-foot man and his family. They could not do it without drops of tears in their eyes. A few animals more were caught in Alaska of course witha great help of a sleeping gun and of course Nanook. There is no doubt they survived some the most exciting and thrilling months in their life. They flew back to NY. Their father was full of enthusiasm to see such beutiful rare animals and of course even more to see thir sons which have done such a great job. The last thing he said was that the money will go into a trust for them so they could get the education they need to be a wildlife scientists. The time will come when they will know the animals inside out.