This book is part of a book series called Red Fox Fiction .

There are 432 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 1998 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Willard Price was born in 1887 in Peterborough, Ontario. He had a great interest in 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 travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.