African Adventure

This article is for Willard Price's children's book. For the Zoo Tycoon 2 expansion, see Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure
African Adventure
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-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.

Analysis

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]

References

  1. ↑ Richard Phillips (2001) Politics of reading: Decolonizing children's geographies" Ecumene, 8.2: 125-150.
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