Adventure

The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

The Prairie is the third installment of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, first published in…

Allan and the Holy Flower

H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain’s voice opens the tale with a casual confession that his name, ever linked to hunting, will…

The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)

Daniel Defoe

The work is a first‑person narrative that blends the conventions of eighteenth‑century adventure fiction with…

Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Sven Anders Hedin

The work is a first‑hand account of Sven Anders Hedin’s 1909 expedition across the Trans‑Himalayan plateau,…

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person memoir that blends military anecdote with social satire.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

The volume presents a segment of the legendary Arabian night‑tales, continuing Shahrazad’s endless…

Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce premier volume des Trois Mousquetaires s’inscrit dans le genre de la fiction historique, mêlant aventure,…

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Ernest Thompson Seton

The novel opens with a portrait of Yan, a bright but constrained schoolboy whose father, a genteel yet idle…

Junior High School Literature, Book 1

Elson, William H. (William Harris); Keck, Christine M.

Junior High School Literature, Book 1 is a curated anthology designed for the first year of a junior‑high…

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men

Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men is a juvenile adventure that blends natural‑history exposition with a…

Chatterbox, 1905.

Various

The volume is a nineteenth‑century compilation of children’s periodical pieces, each presented as a…

Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life

John Campbell

Two Knapsacks is a Canadian summer novel that opens with a lively portrait of two young bachelors, Eugene…

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)

Daniel Defoe

The work is a work of early‑18th‑century fiction that treats shipwreck survival, island life, and the…

The Story of Grettir the Strong

The Story of Grettir the Strong is an Icelandic saga translated into English, presenting the life of the…

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

The work is an adventure tale that follows Tom Sawyer after the river exploits that earned him fame and a…

At the Earth's Core

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs’s At the Earth’s Core is a hybrid of science‑fiction, fantasy adventure and speculative travel, set…

The Magnetic North

Elizabeth Robins

The Magnetic North is a rugged adventure set against the feverish rush for Klondike gold in 1897.

The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond

Ernest Ingersoll

Ernest Ingersoll’s The Crest of the Continent is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a summer…

The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas

Mayne Reid

The work is a sprawling frontier romance that blends ghostly legend with the gritty details of a Texas…

Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

The opening places you squarely in the world of H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain, a blend of African…

Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, self‑conscious novel that pretends to be the sequel to the author’s own popular…

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

Thomas Livingstone Mitchell’s Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 is a…

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

Various

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Volume VIII, No 25 (May 21, 1887) is a nineteenth‑century children’s…

This Country of Ours

H. E. Marshall

This work is a sweeping survey of American history, organized as a series of numbered “stories” that trace…