 First US edition | |
| Author | Willard Price |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Pat Marriott |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure comic |
| 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-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]
Reference
- ↑ 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.