Whale Adventure

I grew up with these books and am delighted to find my 10 and 8 year old enjoying them just as much....they are indeed a little dated now but the guy's skill in producing ripping yarns, one after another, still to me is unbeatable. With regard to "political correctness" it's portrayed 2 ways - the bad guy showing predjudice (and we are left in no doubt about who the bad guys are and how wrong they are for it). The other way is milder, in that maybe the odd remark does not gel - perhaps purely because it's written 40+ years ago or maybe some occasional remarks seem condescending, but I have found them a good sounding point to initiate discussion with my children. It's a win-win. (Quite apart from the fact that my 8 year old scientist/engineer does not see any value in reading stories at all, these were the only ones to have grabbed and kept his attention)

Williard Price wrote some fabulous adventure stories featuring Hall and Roger two brothers who are wandering the world finding rare animals for their father John Hunt's animal farm in New York.The ambience is fairly authentic, comes from the author's travels to 77 countries in early to mid 20th century, may not always be politically correct, but leave that to to the political people, this is a darn good yarn.Whale adventure is an adventure story that is based in a old-type whaler, a square-rigger (whatever that means) in which whales are hunted without the advantages of modern weaponry. fairly elemental battle between the largest creature and the most cruel one. The adventure includes being stranded on a harpooned whale's back and the necessity of steering it to reach your ship, a nice ship-wrecked sequence without the glamour and also a sojourn on the modern whalers which can process 48 whales every day.notwithstanding all his animal stuff, price, i think was an animal lover, in most his books animals have a positive role to play, the villians are mostly human in form, and his understanding of animal behaviour and research is impeccable.Read this book, with no pre-conceived notions and hopefully this will lead you and your kids into a world of pure reading pleasure, adventure, action, and knowledge gained as a by-product

This is one of many adventures of Hal and Rodger Hunt,they work for thair dad John Hunt on an animal farm where they are sent to many countries to collect live animals, they usualy end up in trouble which adds more excitment to this already brilliant book!