| Whale Adventure (Red Fox older fiction) | 
 enlarge | Author: Willard Price
Creator: Pat Marriott
Publisher: Red Fox
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 93119
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0099184710
EAN: 9780099184713
ASIN: 0099184710
Publication Date: September 16, 1993
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 Whale Adventure August 3, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think this book is a brilliant yet different addition to Willard Price's Adventure series. Unlike a fellow reviewer's (frankly ridiculous) idea that this book is inappropriate for young readers of today I think it is important to see this in its proper context. There are many subjects now deemed unacceptable that should not just be deleted from history. This is a story about a barbaric industry and the horrific conditions in which it was conducted. The particular boat in this story was outdated at the time it was written and the savage brutality of whaling was in no way sugar coated by Price. It's not the most attractive story in the canon but it isn't meant to be. Literature should not be updated every time a subject falls out of favour. Perhaps Moby Dick could be turned into a thrilling whale watching adventure with Captain Ahab searching for the elusive white whale in order to shoot a documentary about it. This book may not be politically correct but it still has some worth while things to say. Our society was built on industries such as this, we may have progressed but we should remember where we came from.
Will K. Williams
Whale Adventure - Really good! February 23, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well written a great adventure! Great story for all ages (according to my 8 Year old!)
A Simply Amazing Book January 9, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was one of the best books I have ever read. It is interesting, enthralling, and has an extremely gripping plot.
 A well-written adventure, but outdated and cruel ... March 5, 2003
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
Willard Price is renowned for his skill in creating a wonderful world of adventure and intrigue for young people and there's no doubt that he's put that skill to good use here. But there's one problem - written in the 1960s when whale hunting was still happily practiced throughout the world, Whale Adventure exonerates the now almost universally-banned hunt of threatened species with avid descriptions of the vicious, monstrous animals whose ferocity merits their fate at the hands of sailors with harpoons. Of course at the time of writing, this treatment of whales (a commercial product after all) is nothing out of the ordinary - but now, when whales are more generally regarded as wondrous (and in many cases endangered) animals and ethical whale-watching industries have successfully and sustainably replaced hunting throughout the world, it is certainly a book which I would encourage children and adults alike to avoid at all costs. With no disrespect to the author, it is a well-written adventure - but in 2003 it is outdated and cruel, with no sense of the consequences of that cruelty. A modern, and equally thrilling, whale-watching adventure would be preferable any day.
A good book but with a semi-repeating storyline November 20, 1999
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hal and Roger are making up the final men on a old whaling ship when, as usual, they find themselves in trouble. Firstly Roger has to spend the night defending a freshly killed whale with a spade and then Hal is ordered 80 whips with the cat of nine tales. He is about to be given the whips when another whale is spotted, the men are called and they man the whale boats. As a lance harpoon is thrust into the whales lungs, the whale smashes the tiny boat and Hal manages to grab the harpoon and hangs on. Using his use of knowlage of animals manages to steer the whale back to the big whaling ship. During the night the ship is attacked by a large group of whales, the ship sinks and all the men pile into one boat. they manage to send a message by albertross and then they are picked up by a modern whaling ship.
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