Cannibal Adventure is a 1972 children's novel by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. It depicts an expedition to New Guinea in search of such exotic creatures as Komodo dragons, bandicoots and dinosaur lizards, Hal and Roger sail for New Guinea, an island still inhabited by headhunters and cannibals. In the dense jungle many dangers await them but they face fewer threats from the cannibals than from an old enemy who has escaped from jail and is bent on having his revenge on them.
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Famous quotes containing the words cannibal and/or adventure:
“SWEENEY: I’ll carry you off
To a cannibal isle.
DORIS: You’ll be the cannibal!
SWEENEY: You’ll be the missionary!
I’ll gobble you up. I’ll be the cannibal.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former—the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers—prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.”
—Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)