# African Adventure

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This article is about the children's book. For the Zoo Tycoon 2 expansion, see [Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure](/source/Zoo_Tycoon_2:_African_Adventure).

***African Adventure*** is a [1963](/source/1963_in_literature) [children's book](/source/Children's_literature) by the [Canadian](/source/Canadian)-[American](/source/Americans) author [Willard Price](/source/Willard_Price) featuring his "[Adventure](/source/The_Adventure_Series_(Willard_Price))" series characters, [Hal and Roger Hunt](/source/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](/source/Leopard_Society) who is out to kill them.

## Legacy

Richard Phillips cites *African Adventure* as an example of western authors acknowledging [decolonisation](/source/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](/source/The_Guardian)*, included *African Adventure* on his list of the "10 best nature books."[2]

## References

1. Phillips, Richard (2001). "Politics of reading: Decolonizing children's geographies". *Ecumene*. **8** (2): 125–150. [doi:10.1177/096746080100800201](https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800201)

1. Dee, Tim (March 20, 2015). ["The 10 best nature books"](http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/20/the-10-best-nature-books). *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150320204311/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/20/the-10-best-nature-books) 2015-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 19, 2020.

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