Elephant Adventure - by Willard Price. [First Edition]

FIRST EDITION Jonathan Cape, London, 1964

Hard back and jacket in very good condition. Illustrated. Grey boards embossed with illustration of an elephant on front, slight scuffing to edges. slight foxing No inscriptions Jacket is price clipped with small closed tear at top of spine, rubbed, and chipped at base of spine and corners. Foxed on reverse side.

ELEPHANT ADVENTURE is the 7th book in the series of 14 books

At the Mountains of the Moon the flowers grow to 29 feet and there is snow on the equator. Here the boys capture the rare white elephant and are kidnapped by Arab slavers, from whom they eventually escape.

The "Adventure" series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Canadian-born American author Willard Price. The fourteen-book series chronicles the exploits of budding teenage zoologists Hal and Roger Hunt, as they travel around the world capturing exotic and dangerous animals for their father's wildlife collection. Shortly before his death, in 1983, Price commented that: My aim in writing the Adventure series for young people was to lead them to read by making reading exciting and full of adventure. At the same time I want to inspire an interest in wild animals and their behavior. Judging from the letters I have received from boys and girls around the world, I believe I have helped open to them the worlds of books and natural history.

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