Whale Adventure
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Whale Adventure is a 1960 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt.
The novel depicts Hal and Roger's journey on a whaling ship with anachronistic, nineteenth century features such as harpooning by hand, hard tack, the brig, and keel-hauling. Price borrows the setting and many key events from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Roger defends a captured sperm whale against a group of shark then later group of killer whales. This novel also explain much how clever the killer whales.
In the end of the story, their ship was destroyed by a sperm whale and they were saved by a modern whale hunter ship with helicopter to spot the whale and on board can factory.
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