Books with title The Gorilla Hunters - A Tale of the Wilds of Africa

The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa First published in 1861, is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne, and the sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island. Its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. Similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world.

The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa First published in 1861, is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne, and the sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island. Its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. Similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world.

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island and set in "darkest Africa", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa follows the adventure of three young men in "darkest Africa." Ralph Rover is living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist. He gets visited by his old friend Peterkin Gay, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognize. Peterkin has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. The two are joined by the third friend, Jack Martin, and they leave for Africa.