Adventure

Louise de la Vallière

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Louise de la Vallière is the third installment of Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet’s sprawling D’Artagnan…

The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway

Henry Inman

The Old Santa Fe Trail is a sweeping historical narrative that chronicles the development of the great…

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book continues Rudyard Kipling’s Indian jungle saga, focusing on the harsh drought that…

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

Hermann Hagedorn

The work is a biographical narrative that places Theodore Roosevelt’s early ranching years within the mythic…

The Old East Indiamen

E. Keble Chatterton

The Discovery of Guiana

Walter Raleigh

The work is a first‑person account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1595 expedition to the “large, rich and beautiful…

The Well at the World's End: A Tale

William Morris

The opening of The Well at the World’s End places the reader squarely in a medieval‑styled kingdom called…

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland

G. F. Browne

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records the author’s explorations of natural ice‑caves in…

The Return of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Return of Tarzan is a continuation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s adventure saga, placing the jungle‑born hero…

Love of Life, and Other Stories

Jack London

Love of Life, and Other Stories is a Jack London collection that plunges the reader straight into the bleak,…

The Man from Snowy River

A. B. Paterson

The volume is a collection of bush ballads by A. B. Paterson, first issued in 1895 and revised through the…

Sindbad the Sailor, & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

Anonymous

This work is a collection of Arabian Nights tales, presented here under the heading “Sindbad the Sailor, &…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

M. B. Synge

A Book of Discovery is a sweeping historical survey that traces humanity’s urge to chart the unknown from…

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3

Frederick Whymper

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

From John O'Groats to Land's End Or, 1372 miles on foot; A book of days and chronicle of adventures by two pedestrians on tour

Naylor, John Anderton; Naylor, Robert Anderton

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel chronicle in which the brothers John Anderton Naylor and Robert…

Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy

Herman Melville

The work is an autobiographical‑fictional sea story that follows a young American boy’s growing obsession…

Seven years in South Africa, volume 1 (of 2): travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond fields and the Zambesi (1872-79)

Emil Holub

The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. Nesbit

The novel is a lively family adventure that follows the six Bastable children as they grapple with the loss…

The Story of Little Black Sambo, and The Story of Little Black Mingo

Helen Bannerman

The work is a pair of children’s tales by Helen Bannerman, presented as stories the author invented for two…

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe

The work is a collection of humorous, wildly exaggerated travel narratives that belong to the…

Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland

Carl Lumholtz

Carl Lumholtz’s work is a first‑hand ethnographic and natural‑history report of four years spent traversing…

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s “The Land of Midian (Revisited)” is a scholarly travelogue that builds on his…

The Tale of Fatty Coon

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Fatty Coon is a juvenile animal story that follows the adventures of a plump raccoon living with…