The Gorilla Hunters (Annotated)

The Gorilla Hunters (1861) is a vigorous Victorian adventure romance that follows Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay—the youthful heroes of The Coral Island—into the forests of equatorial Africa in pursuit of gorillas and other dramatic encounters. Written in Ballantyne's brisk, episodic style, the novel combines natural-history curiosity, comic dialogue, perilous action, and moral reflect...