African Adventure
1963 children's book by Willard Price
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African Adventure is a 1963 children's book by the Canadian-American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt.
 First US edition | |
| Author | Willard Price |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Pat Marriott |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure comic |
| Publisher | John Day (US) Jonathan Cape (UK) |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1963 |
| Pages | 189 pp |
| ISBN | 0-340-14904-3 |
| OCLC | 16203319 |
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]
