Adventure

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

The Story of Doctor Dolittle is a fantasy tale aimed at younger readers, built around the extraordinary…

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Lang, Andrew; Pollock, Walter Herries

The work is a comic parody of Victorian adventure tales, written by Andrew Lang and Walter Herries Pollock as…

A thousand miles on an elephant in the Shan States

Holt S. Hallett

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that doubles as a geopolitical survey of the Siamese Shan States…

The Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Young Miner is a nineteenth‑century adventure novel that follows Tom Nelson, a sixteen‑year‑old son of a…

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

The work is a first‑person memoir of Richard Henry Dana Jr., a Harvard‑educated lawyer who, after a bout of…

The Pirate's Pocket Book

Dion Clayton Calthrop

Nero, the Circus Lion: His Many Adventures

Richard Barnum

The book is a juvenile adventure story that follows the young lion Nero, a two‑year‑old cub living with his…

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Charles Herbert Sylvester

The work is a narrative of a pirate expedition set in the late seventeenth‑century Caribbean, presented as a…

The Nile quest: a record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin

Harry Johnston

The Nile Quest is a scholarly record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin, written by Harry H.

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Across Unknown South America

Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s Across Unknown South America is a first‑hand travelogue that doubles as a…

Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes; Or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation

Stella M. Francis

The book is a juvenile adventure that follows a group of Camp Fire Girls at their summer camp near the scenic…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers a selection of Poe’s early American tales that blend the uncanny with adventurous…

Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor

This work is a retelling of Arthurian romance aimed at younger readers, collected under the title Stories of…

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister

The Virginian is a Western set in the waning frontier of Wyoming between 1874 and 1890, a period Owen Wister…

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

The volume presents a scholarly overview of the many English renderings of Homer’s Odyssey, tracing how each…

The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

Luís de Camões

The Lusiad is Luís de Camões’s grand epic poem that celebrates Portugal’s Age of Discovery, focusing on Vasco…

Der Schatz der Sierra Madre

B. Traven

Der Roman ist ein düsterer Western, der im Grenzstädtchen Oso Negro an der Sierra Madre spielt und von Armut,…

Memories and Adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle

Memories and Adventures is a sprawling autobiographical memoir by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the celebrated…

Novelas Cortas

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The volume is a pedagogical anthology of short Spanish narratives, each accompanied by exhaustive notes, an…

A Yankee doctor in paradise

S. M. Lambert

The work is a memoir of Dr. S. M. Lambert, a United States physician who spent much of his career in the…

The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck-Me-In Tales

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck‑Me‑In Tales is a whimsical animal fable aimed at younger readers, introducing…

The source of the Blue Nile: a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara, with a note on the religion, customs, etc. of Abyssinia

Arthur J. Hayes

Arthur J. Hayes’s work is a travelogue that records a 1905 expedition from Khartoum through western Abyssinia…

Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration

Chapman, Abel; Buck, Walter John

The work is a hybrid travelogue and sporting memoir that sets out to chart the “wild” side of Spain through…