Adventure

Trial by water

Sewell Peaslee Wright

The story is a compact adventure set in the Canadian wilderness, where a young wife, her husband Jean…

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

The Railway Children is a youthful adventure set against the backdrop of English railways and countryside…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a juvenile fantasy that opens in the stark, gray Kansas…

Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro

Rafael Sabatini

Love‑at‑arms is a historical‑fiction narrative set in early‑sixteenth‑century Italy, drawn from the…

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is a historical adventure set amid the French and Indian…

Blue-grass and Broadway

Maria Thompson Daviess

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century theatrical romance set against the glitter of Broadway, introduced through…

A Victor of Salamis

William Stearns Davis

William Stearns Davis’s A Victor of Salamis is a work of historical fiction that dramatizes the Persian…

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

The opening places you amid a desperate rescue on a deserted shore, where a cast of characters, reporter,…

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

The Journals of Lewis and Clark present a day‑by‑day record of the Corps of Discovery’s early progress down…

Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne Vrienden

Bernardus Gewin

Dit werk is een mengeling van reisverslag, literaire herinnering en humoristische essay, geschreven door…

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World is an adventure tale that thrusts a motley crew of explorers, Professor Challenger, the…

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

Hudson Stuck

Hudson Stuck’s Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled is a first‑person travel narrative that chronicles a winter…

The Wandering Jew — Complete

Eugène Sue

The Wandering Jew is a sprawling historical‑fiction saga that intertwines the fate of a cursed traveler with…

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Canot, Theodore; Mayer, Brantz

The work is an autobiographical memoir that doubles as a first‑person account of a young sailor’s immersion…

The Ultimate Weapon

John W. Campbell, Jr.

The Ultimate Weapon is a mid‑1930s science‑fiction serial that launches straight into a high‑stakes…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science, the January 1930 issue, is a pulp‑era magazine that launches with a…

The Hour of the Dragon

Robert E. Howard

The Hour of the Dragon is a sword‑and‑sorcery adventure that begins in a dim, candle‑lit chamber where four…

The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The novel is a sweeping historical romance set against the turbulent politics of late‑medieval Poland, where…

The gods of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The work is a pulpy adventure of science‑fiction romance, set on the legendary planet Barsoom.

Red Nails

Robert E. Howard

The story opens in a tangled, primeval forest where a strikingly dressed woman, Valeria of the Red…

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.

Anonymous

This volume is a compendium of true‑to‑life sea narratives that span the early nineteenth century to the turn…

The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition

G. A. Henty

The novel is a nineteenth‑century adventure set against the backdrop of the British Army’s campaigns in Egypt…

A Martian Odyssey

Stanley G. Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey is a science‑fiction adventure set in a near‑future era when humanity has just begun to…

Shadows in the Moonlight

Robert E. Howard

The story opens in a tangled reed‑filled marsh where a terrified young woman, Olivia, has just been unseated…