一本好书 《哈里罗杰探险记》（共14集）

其实是少年读物，我现在才发现它，很好看。
正在寻找它的英文版本... ...

推荐一个网址http://hi.baidu.com/cleverlyk/ 这里有《北极探险》（第14集）
图文并茂，照片很精彩。

(照片来自Amazon.)


作者是Willard Price，从wiki上抄来一段

Willard DeMille Price (28 July 1887 – 14 October 1983) was a Canadian-born American natural historian and author of children's fiction.

Price was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and his family subsequently moved to the United States when he was four. He acquired his MA and Litt.D from Columbia University, before going on to edit the journals Survey and World Outlook. He travelled on many expeditions for the National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History, in particular to Japan. He documented his travels in a series of non-fiction books and also used them as inspiration for his Adventure series of novels for young readers, which depict the exploits of teenage zoologists Hal and Roger Hunt.

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.[1]

Professor Laurie Barber of Waikato University (Hamilton, New Zealand) has presented a case that Willard Price may have been spying for the United States, especially during his Japanese travels in the 1930s.[2]


Rights sold

During October 2006, the Price family of Holden, Massachussetts, entered into an agreement to sell the copyrights and related legal rights in the 14 adventure series titles, plus the right to use Price's name, to London-based literary brand owner and investor Fleming Literary Management LLP. (*[1] Willard Price brand owner)