Willard Price

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Willard Price


Born
in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
July 28, 1887

Died
October 14, 1983


Willard DeMille Price was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and moved to the US when he was four. He got his MA and Litt.D from Columbia. 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. Price also 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 travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.

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African Adventure

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Gorilla Adventure

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Whale Adventure

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Volcano Adventure

3.74 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 1956 — 18 editions
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“Yes , you're going to see the greatest river on earth...the greatest unexplored jungle on earth...greatest storehouse of natural resources on earth. Some day the Amazon will feed the world.”
Willard Price, Amazon Adventure

“We've got the easy end of it. We're only up against animals. He's up against an enemy who will stop at nothing.”
Willard Price, Amazon Adventure

“us?” Hal’s analytical brain was working hard. “It can’t be a personal grudge. You get along with everybody. You haven’t any personal enemies. It can’t be political—you don’t mix in politics. There are lots of revolutionaries in these Latin American countries with axes to grind, but you’ve never had anything to do with that sort of thing. So it must be economic.” “What”
Willard Price, Amazon Adventure / South Sea Adventure

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