Adventure Series
The fourteen-book Adventure series by Willard Price feature Hal and Roger Hunt, sons of animal collector John Hunt, who travel the world collecting exotic animals for their father's wildlife collection. Each adventure explores a fascinating part of the world and its animals or natural features.
Eighteen year old Hal is a knowledgeable zoologist, always eager to learn more about the world around him, while thirteen year old Roger is a mischievous practical joker, who thinks that each adventure is for him to have fun. Both brothers are resilient and resourceful, necessary traits that are often called upon as they explore new places and deal with sometimes dangerous animals or situations.
In their year of travels, Hal and Roger visit the Amazon jungle, sail the Pacific Ocean, explore the volcanoes of Japan, experience the life of a whaler, spend time in Africa, Australia and New Guinea, before finishing their adventures in India and Greenland. Written over the course of thirty years, the books draw on the real life experiences of its author, who during his lifetime visited 148 countries while working as a foreign correspondent and roving researcher on behalf of newspapers, museums and societies. Full of adventure, peril and a strong sense of right (conservation as well as morality), the books still appeal today as an adult rereading his childhood favourites.