''African Adventure'' is a

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

children's book by the Canadian-born

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author

Willard Price Willard DeMille Price (28 July 1887 – 14 October 1983) was a Canadian-born American traveller, journalist and author. Early life Price was born to a family of devout Methodism, Methodists in Peterborough, Ontario. When he was four years ol ...

featuring his " Adventure" series characters,

Hal and Roger Hunt Hal and Roger Hunt are fictional characters appearing in the children's '' Adventure Series'' novels, by Canadian-born American author Willard Price. The sons of a world-renowned animal collector John Hunt, Hal and Roger have grown up alongside ...

. 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." In 2015, Tim Dee, writing for '' The Guardian'', included ''African Adventure'' on his list of the "10 best nature books."

References

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-adventure-novel-stub