Ken Ward in the Jungle

By Zane Grey

Book Overview

Zane Grey, original name Pearl Grey, (born Jan. 31, 1872, Zanesville, Ohio, U.S.--died Oct. 23, 1939, Altadena, Calif.), prolific writer whose romantic novels of the American West largely created a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000NXGPCQ
• Release Date: January 1940
• Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ken Ward, Lion Hunter

The Young Lion Hunter is Ken Ward at his best in the Grand Canyon helping capture mountain lions or cougars. This novel is the fictionalized telling of Zane Grey's first visit to the Canyon with Buffalo Jones in 1907 which furnished him with enough material to write his first western, The Heritage of the Desert. Harpers liked ZG's boys' books about Ken Ward, but really did not encourage him in any other fashion, even though he had submitted other books to them and they had resoundedly rejected them. Still, he kept trying because Harpers was THE publishing house. Ken encounters mustangs he must ride, a pack of hounds the likes of which he had never seen before, Native Americans who he comes to appreciate with a new awareness, and landscape so wild and primitive it takes the breath away. A marvelous treatise of how the West still was an hundred years ago. Great book! I have this exact copy,

Ken Ward in the Jungle

Hey! My dad's name is Ken Ward! What a coinky-dink! he he he :D

Not typical Grey

Although this book is not the typical Grey Western/Pioneer novel, it carries many of the charactics that earmark it as a genuine Grey. The adventerous Ken Ward, his rambumctious brother Hal, and few new characters guide you on an exciting journey through the jungle. Grey, as usual, decribes the jungle in a manner such as to make one think they are there. Although off the beaten Grey path, this book will be pleasurable for the Grey fan, or any other reader.