African Adventure

African Adventure is a 1963 children's book by the Canadian-American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt.

This article is about the children's book. For the Zoo Tycoon 2 expansion, see Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure.
African Adventure
First US edition
AuthorWillard Price
IllustratorPat Marriott
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreAdventure comic
PublisherJohn Day (US)
Jonathan Cape (UK)
Published in English
1963
Pages189 pp
ISBN0-340-14904-3
OCLC16203319

On Safari in Uganda, Hal and Roger manage to capture a varied collection of African animals including a pigeon, hyena, cape buffalo, and leopard. But their efforts are threatened by the antics of fraudulent White Hunter "Colonel" Benjamin Bigg, and by a member of the Leopard Society who is out to kill them.

Legacy

Richard Phillips cites African Adventure as an example of western authors acknowledging decolonisation, albeit through a traditionally colonial lens. "Though Price acknowledges African anti-colonial resistance," Phillips writes, "he collapses it back into a form of primitivism and savagery."[1] In 2015, Tim Dee, writing for The Guardian, included African Adventure on his list of the "10 best nature books."[2]

Reference
  1. Phillips, Richard (2001). "Politics of reading: Decolonizing children's geographies". Ecumene. 8 (2): 125–150. doi:10.1177/096746080100800201.
  2. Dee, Tim (March 20, 2015). "The 10 best nature books". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-03-20. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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