Gorilla Adventure is a 1969

1969 in literature

The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...

 children's book

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 by the Canadian

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-born American

United States

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 author Willard Price

Willard Price

Willard DeMille Price was a Canadian-born American natural historian and author of children's fiction.Price was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and his family subsequently moved to the United States when he was four. He acquired his MA and Litt.D from Columbia University, before going on to edit...

 featuring his "Adventure

The Adventure Series (Willard Price)

The "Adventure" series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Canadian-born American author Willard Price. The fourteen-book series chronicles the exploits of budding teenage zoologists Hal and Roger Hunt, as they travel around the world capturing exotic and dangerous animals for their...

" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt

Hal and Roger Hunt

Hal and Roger Hunt are fictional characters appearing in the children's Adventure novel series, by Canadian-born American author Willard Price. The sons of world-renowned animal collector John Hunt, Hal and Roger have grown up alongside exotic and dangerous wildlife...

. It depicts an expedition to capture a giant mountain gorilla

Mountain Gorilla

The Mountain Gorilla is one of the two subspecies of the Eastern Gorilla. There are two populations. One is found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, within three National Parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga in the eastern Democratic...

 for a circus.

The location was post-colonial Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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. 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 (Andre Tieg) who pass himself off as a guide, and a poacher

Poaching

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 of gorillas, called Nero, whose primary M.O. was to slaughter all adults and take the children gorillas.

In the midst of the dangers, Roger got temporarily blinded by a spitting cobra. Interestingly, one villager refers to a gorilla as 'man who can't speak' a reference to gorilla intelligence.

The safari team are complete in this adventure.

Other persons

- A doctor in the field hospital

Field hospital

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who performs surgery on Gog. Gog was shot by Tieg

- Two diamond searchers. Gog holds Hal's hand and eye to eye contact ensures that Gog knows the truth.

Animals captured

Animals captured in Gorilla Adventure

Species	Name	Details
Male Gorilla	Gog	His family were slaughtered by Nero and he assumed the safari team to be the killers.
Two baby gorillas	Bubu & Nuru	Their entire band were killed by Nero and his gang.
Female Gorilla	Lady Luck	She is easily captured by Roger because she is distracted by wrestling with the white python.
Python	Snow White	Although this python is white in colour she is not an albino, as evidenced by her blue eyes.
Black Panther		Gog trapped Hal in an elephant pit and threw the panther into it. Hal captured the panther empty-handed, though he received serious injuries.
Road Runner
Chimpanzee	The Good Samaritan	This chimpanzee gained his nickname by helping a colobus in the midst of volcano eruption.
Boomslang		Particularly notable for possessing two heads.
Cobra
Mamba
Elephant Shrew
Bush Baby
Colobus	The Little Bishop