African Adventure
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- This article is for Willard Price's children's book. For the Zoo Tycoon 2 expansion, see Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure
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Author | Willard Price |
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Illustrator | Pat Marriott |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | |
Publisher | John Day (US) Jonathan Cape (UK) |
Published in English | 1963 |
Pages | 189 pp |
ISBN | 0-340-14904-3 |
OCLC | 16203319 |
African Adventure is a 1963 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt.
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]
References[]
- ^ Phillips, Richard (2001). "Politics of reading: Decolonizing children's geographies". Ecumene. 8 (2): 125–150. doi:10.1177/096746080100800201.
- ^ Dee, Tim (March 20, 2015). "The 10 best nature books". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-03-20. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
- 1963 American novels
- Novels by Willard Price
- Novels set in Uganda
- American children's novels
- American adventure novels
- Jonathan Cape books
- 1963 children's books
- John Day Company books
- 1960s novel stubs
- Adventure novel stubs