Diving Adventure / Amazon Adventure

Hal & Roger Hunt Adventures

by Willard Price

Diving Adventure 1970 - Hal and Roger find sharks, jellyfish, poison, gold, and old enemy Kaggs turned religious in an underwater city near the Australia Great Barrier Reef.
Amazon Adventure 1951- Hal and Roger Hunt explore uncharted waters of the Pastaza River, deep in the Amazon jungle and collect rare zoo specimens. Threats draw their father back home. The brothers evade villainour Croc and gang, headhunters, find piranhas, pythons, jaguars. Of natives, Napo is reluctant, Aqua enthusiastic.

Genres: Childrens

583 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Willard DeMille Price was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and moved to the US when he was four. He got his MA and Litt.D from Columbia. He held a special interest for natural history, ethnology and exploration and made numerous expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society. Price also went on to edit various magazines on travel and world affairs and spent six years working in Japan as foreign correspondent for New York and London newspapers. He travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.

Reviews

[Anne Patkau · Rating 4 out of 5]

Diving Adventure 1970 - Hal and Roger find sharks, jellyfish, poison, gold, and old enemy Kaggs turned religious in an underwater city near the Australia Great Barrier Reef.
Amazon Adventure 1951- Hal and Roger Hunt explore uncharted waters of the Pastaza River, deep in the Amazon jungle and collect rare zoo specimens. Threats draw their father back home. The brothers evade villainous Croc and gang, headhunters, find piranhas, pythons, jaguars. Of natives, Napo is reluctant, Aqua enthusiastic.

Far-off dangers brought to life in my own quiet reading room. The Reef I dove, saw Costa Rica, far from Amazon. Odd from viewpoints of prankish boy and more competent older sibling, makes challenges harder. Too bad out of print, hard to find.

Licensed divers require partners, precautions. I dove the Reef, saw absolutely beyond stunning real fish brighter than movie Finding Nemo characters. Both brothers, and father John, suffer attacks from poisonous creatures, survive without treatment. Only 14 years old, is Roger's title sarcastic? "Doctor Roger Hunt was at his wit's end .. death was possible" p 123, cites cases (real?). Foolish.

Hal is older, 16, 18, depending on book. His younger brother Roger 14 is "scatterbrained" despite promises to be "sensible as a judge" p 397, always pulling stupid stunts that disprove his attempts to appear grownup.

Campers pack more for a weekend here in NA than Amazon trekkers for month(s). Real facts prevail over imaginary. Always a villain. First, Merlin Kraggs, perhaps religious relented double murderer p 53. Second, nicknamed Croc, hires English-speaking thugs somehow in faroff jungle.

Astonishing trivia takes first place. Rarely too much detail. Shark eats eight humans in underwater City, after killed, "the heart keeps on going" p 211. Onto canoe, shrunken head-hunter skull "Charlie .. was merely tied by his hair to a thwart. He had weathered sun, rain and wave while alive and was just as capable of doing so now" p 313.

[Jacob Li · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great omnibus of the best two books of the series.

[Maddie Laidlaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an adventure book about two brothers who travel to different places around the world looking for animals to catch and bring back to their father who is an animal collector.

[Guy E.]

In this book the Hunt brothers go after animals for their father's collection in the South Seas and in the ominous Amazon Jungle. Through out the trouble of capturing animals like anacondas, octopuses and black panthers, they also encounter old enemies and make some new ones. But through out it all, they rely on themselves and one another to pull through.