Adventure

Winning His Way

Charles Carleton Coffin

Winning His Way is a nineteenth‑century historical novel that blends frontier settlement life with the…

Sunny Boy in the Big City

Ramy Allison White

The Corsair King

Mór Jókai

The Corsair King is a swash‑swashing adventure that plunges the reader straight into the aftermath of a…

The Madness of May

Meredith Nicholson

The Madness of May is a New York‑set work of fiction that plunges the reader straight into a feverish…

The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War

George Cary Eggleston

The work is a juvenile adventure set against the backdrop of the Creek War of 1813‑14, weaving together…

Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns

W. P. Shervill

The work is a juvenile adventure set against the backdrop of a World‑I era school in Belgium, where the drama…

Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer

Waldemar Bonsels

Der Roman „Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer“ von Waldemar Bonsels ist ein Jugendbuch, das das Leben einer…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, is a mid‑nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a…

The Grain Ship

Morgan Robertson

Morgan Robertson’s collection gathers a dozen compact tales that orbit the sea, and it opens with a striking…

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Charles Warren Stoddard

The work is a travelogue that blends youthful celebration with a sweeping survey of the American West.

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"

Nat Love

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Nat Love, the African‑American cowboy who earned the nickname…

Rollo's Philosophy. [Air]

Jacob Abbott

Rollo’s Philosophy is a juvenile instructional work that blends narrative adventure with scientific…

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The novel begins as a Victorian adventure set against the backdrop of a perilous voyage to Africa.

Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay; Or, The Disappearing Fleet

G. Harvey Ralphson

The book is an adventure tale that follows a troop of five well‑equipped Boy Scouts as they trek far north…

Doctor Jones' Picnic

S. E. Chapman

Doctor Jones' Picnic is a speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction imagination with a quasi‑romantic…

The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman

Francis L. Hawks

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical narrative that treats Daniel Boone as a larger‑than‑life…

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights Entertainments is a collection of folk narratives drawn from the rich storytelling…

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4

Frederick Whymper

Frederick Whymper’s The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism is a sprawling, encyclopedic…

The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse is a whimsical picture‑book adventure that follows a small, reddish‑brown…

The Young Treasure Hunter; Or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska

Frank V. Webster

The Young Treasure Hunter; Or, Fred Stanley’s Trip to Alaska is a juvenile adventure set against the backdrop…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights – Volume 5 is a scholarly edition of a…

Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys: or, The Birch Bark Lodge

Silas K. Boone

Phil Bradley’s Mountain Boys is a juvenile adventure set in the Adirondack wilderness, where four friends,…

Little By Little; or, The Cruise of the Flyaway

Oliver Optic

The book is a mid‑nineteenth‑century juvenile adventure that blends nautical excitement with a clear…

Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena

J. A. Zahm

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that chronicles the author’s expedition through the river valleys…