''Elephant Adventure'' is a

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

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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 Methodists in Peterborough, Ontario. He was the nephew of Weston A. Pri ...

featuring his "

Adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme spo ...

" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. It depicts Hal and Roger's attempts to capture elephants for a zoo.

Enemies

Their enemies are a group of slave hunters. They kidnapped some villagers and cut an elephant's trunk when the animal resisted their capture. (Hal had to shoot the elephant, much to Roger's protest. Hal explained that they were in the jungle and no one could save the trunk. An elephant will die without a trunk). Hal and Roger and their team followed the slave hunters and were captured.

Animal

During their search of the villagers, they spotted a white elephant. After they escape from the slave hunters, they return to capture the white elephant.

References

1964 American novels 1964 children's books Children's books about elephants Novels set in Uganda Novels by Willard Price Jonathan Cape books Children's novels about animals Novels about elephants Children's books set in Uganda {{Canada-novel-stub