Adventure

The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility

Morgan Robertson

The work is a maritime adventure that treats the steamship Titan as a marvel of modern engineering and a…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

The volume is a compendium of Arabian fairy‑tales drawn from the legendary Thousand Nights, and it opens with…

Pioneers in Canada

Harry Johnston

Harry Johnston’s Pioneers in Canada is a sweeping historical survey that traces the European incursion into…

Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set amid the Irish garrison towns of the Peninsular War era,…

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

The opening places the reader amid the ringing of the great bell of Beaulieu, a sound that summons monks from…

The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Unexplored Spain

Chapman, Abel; Buck, Walter John

Unexplored Spain is a richly illustrated natural‑history and travel work that blends description, hunting…

Stories of Robin Hood

Bertha E. Bush

The work is a juvenile retelling of the Robin Hood legend assembled by Bertha E. Bush.

La isla del tesoro

Robert Louis Stevenson

La obra es una novela de aventuras marítimas que se inscribe dentro del género de historias de piratas y…

Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers

David Cory

The story opens in the bustling Shady Forest School, where a nervous little Jack Rabbit and his classmates,…

Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche is a sweeping historical romance that plunges the reader into the ferment of…

Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Andrews, Roy Chapman; Andrews, Yvette Borup

Camps and Trails in China is a detailed account of the 1916‑1917 Asiatic Zoological Expedition, undertaken by…

The Black Bag

Louis Joseph Vance

The Black Bag opens with a brisk, almost theatrical tableau of strangers and cryptic greetings, then settles…

Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The story opens in the dense, sweltering heart of an African jungle, where Tarzan, a boy‑raised ape, is…

The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer is a historical‑fiction tale set amid the French and Indian War era of the 1740s, weaving…

The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

The work is a scholarly edition of the original narratives that record Pedro Fernández de Quiros’s Pacific…

The Story Girl

L. M. Montgomery

The opening of The Story Girl places us on a May morning as two cousins, Felix and the narrator, depart…

The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux is a juvenile adventure set in the open plains of South Dakota…

White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

Melville’s White Jacket is a first‑person naval memoir that doubles as a satirical sea novel.

The prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The novel is a swash‑buckling adventure that also functions as a love story and a tale of political intrigue.

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

The work titled Ten Years Later is the middle portion of Alexandre Dumas’s third D’Artagnan romance, The…

The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day

Ralph Delahaye Paine

Ralph Delahaye Paine’s The Book of Buried Treasure reads as a sprawling survey of real‑world treasure hunting…

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The Coming Race is a Victorian‑era speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction, utopian vision and…

The mystery of Easter island: The Story of an Expedition

Katherine Routledge

The book is a first‑hand account of a British scientific expedition to Easter Island, written by Katherine…