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Gorilla Adventure by Willard Price.
Hard Cover. Dust jacket. 221 pages. Illustrations. Some foxing. Inscription on the first page. General state of the book, cover and dust jacket is excellent.
Published by Jonathan Cape. London. First Published 1969 Reprinted 1974. ISB 0 224 61636 6.
Gorilla Adventure is a 1969 children's book by the Canadian author Willard Price featuring his "adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. It depicts and expedition to capture a giant mountain gorilla for a circus.
The location was post-colonial Congo. As usual, the greatest danger posed to the brothers, and to the animals, came not from the wild beasts but in the form of humans. The two main primary antagonists were: one inept, boastful but cowardly Belgian who passes himself off as a guide, and a poacher of gorillas, called Nero, whose primary method was to slaughter all adults and take the young gorillas.
In the midst of the dangers, Roger becomes temporarily blinded by a spitting cobra. One villager refers to a gorilla as a 'man who can't speak' in a reference to gorilla intelligence.
The safari team are complete in this adventure.
A classic for teenagers.