Hal and Roger Hunt are on an awesome African adventure to track down the rare great white elephant. The brothers coolly tackle their task - despite doom-laden prophecies from Mumbo, a Watussi chieftain - and as the temperature rises, the danger intensifies. Can the boys tackle the mountains of th...
When you were 14, your parents sent you off with your teenage brother to the jungles of Africa to capture gorillas, snakes, leopards, and such, right‽ Selling to zoos live specimens of rare animals that you wrested down barehanded is a great way for teenagers to earn money for the family! Happens...
Hal and Roger, on safari in Africa, find the bogus WHITE HUNTER accompanying them is hindering their attempts to capture wild animals. Worse is to come, however, in the shape of an evil Witch Doctor who is determined to kill the Hunt brothers. . .
Hal and Roger Hunt are in India, investigating rare and dangerous animals for their father. But on the trail of the rare white tiger, high in the Himalayas, disaster strikes and the brothers realise they are walking into the jaws of death.
Long Island teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt explore uncharted Amazon River with their father, expert naturalist John Hunt for his exotic animal collection. Someone sends an anonymous telegram, so John returns. Alone, the boys face hostile natives, dangerous rapids and wild animals, and a hunchback w...
The boys go exploring in the Pacific, this time studying volcanoes as the companions of a young scientist. With him they share some astonishing experiences: they are let down into a boiling crater in a steel and glass ball; they investigate an active crater on the bed of the sea; they help to rec...
On the high seas, hardships and horrors fill old-fashioned whaling techniques.
He looked up and recognized Basa of the village of Gula. Basa had not yet noticed him. His gaze was fixed upon the basket a hundred feet above. The boys were just climbing into it. A terrible hate was stamped on Basa’s face. If a look could kill, Hal and Roger would have fallen dead at that insta...
The flaps opened and the gun-bearer Toto looked in. ‘May I speak, bwana?’ ‘Come in, Toto. What’s on your mind?’ The little leopard - Chu - the male - he is gone.’ ‘Probably just running around in the bushes somewhere,’ Hal said. ‘No, I saw a man take him and run. A man from the village. I chased ...
The seriously injured were placed in the lorries to be taken to the hospital. Those nearly dead of starvation and thirst were given food and water at once. The young, dying because their mothers had been killed, got special attention. A large cage was reserved for orphans. It was rapidly filled w...
‘Just tried to kill us,’ Hal said. ‘Stole our food from the cache.’ ‘He should go to prison for that.’ ‘He doesn’t know any better,’ said Hal. ‘Empty up here?’ said one man, tapping his head. Hal nodded. He noticed that the Eskimo who had just spoken was on crutches. One foot was gone. ‘What happ...
He tried to move without making a sound. He raised his face and saw Captain Grindle looking down. The captain’s eyes were great balls of terror. He tried to speak, but could not. He backed away from the rail as Hal rose before him. The fog-blinded captain could see very little and could not belie...
The heat beat down from the sun and up from the ground. It was necessary to climb over large blocks of lava. Most of them were solid and probably weighed many tons, but Roger was astonished when he bumped against one as big as a horse and it moved. It seemed to be riddled with small holes like a ...
‘Don’t forget, you promised to back me up. Some day when they are off hunting animals we’ll get some men to help us and we’ll take all their animals that they have collected to New Delhi and sell them to zoos in India, Burma, Singapore and Japan for thousands and thousands of dollars. How does th...
A snaky black trunk went round his body and he was tossed up into the air. The elephant waited to stamp him underfoot as soon as he fell to the ground. But he did not fall. The astonished elephant looked up. The little black man had caught hold of a branch and swung himself up on top of it. There...
Then he discovered his companion. From a crevice near his left elbow two unspeakably evil eyes peered out. Below them was an open mouth set with rows of inch-long, incurved teeth like those of a boa constrictor. Back of the mouth were gill openings. But Hal knew that this was no fish. No fish in ...
For five days they had followed the mysterious dotted line. When a new map was made that line would be solid. Hal completed his pencilled map by marking the juncture with the Amazon. Then he put the map carefully away in a waterproof bottle and placed the bottle in the waterproof medicine box. Th...
It seemed as if the snake, instead of being attracted by the garlic, was trying to get as far away from it as possible. The tail was beginning to go down again. Hal grabbed it and shouted to the men to come and help. They took hold and began to pull. But a snake knows very well what to do in a ca...