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Adventure — page 10
457 public-domain adventure books, summarised. Page 10 of 10.
Oh, You Tex!
William MacLeod Raine
A relentless Texas Ranger must choose between strict legal duty and personal honor when the outlaw who saved his sweetheart's life is brought to face a hanging rope.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting
A gentle English doctor gives up his human practice to care for animals, learns their languages, and embarks on a high-seas adventure to cure a plague in Africa.
The Black Wolf Pack
Daniel Carter Beard
A hidden legacy, a mysterious missing father, and a terrifying pack of trained wolves converge in the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
The moving picture boys on the coast
Victor Appleton
A pair of teenage filmmakers navigate the early days of cinema, tracking down stolen reels and investigating a dangerous ring of wreckers along the California shore.
The Road to Oz
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Lost in a maze of unfamiliar roads, a little girl and a shaggy stranger wander into strange animal kingdoms on an unexpected journey to a royal celebration.
The Riflemen of the Miami
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A band of wilderness rangers battles Shawnee warriors across the Ohio frontier to rescue a woman whose past holds a secret.
The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman
Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks
Driven by an unquenchable craving for solitude, a master woodsman carves a path through the Appalachian wilderness to open Kentucky to American settlement, paying a devastating personal toll alongside his family.
The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch
Henry Wallace Phillips
Unpromising earth yields unexpected gold when a solitary miner takes in a tough street waif and learns that fortune follows the heart.
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir
When ice crushes their ship in the frozen Antarctic sea, twenty-eight men begin an extraordinary fight for survival across ice floes, open water, and jagged mountains.
The Heiress of Wyvern Court
Emilie Searchfield
A quiet train ride leads nine-year-old Inna to her doctor uncle’s rural home, where unexpected adventures, dangerous coastal cliffs, and a long-hidden family mystery await.
A Cousin's Conspiracy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Left penniless by a dying guardian on the Iowa prairie, an orphaned boy must outwit dishonest vagrants, bank robbers, and his own greedy relatives to claim his rightful inheritance.
The Adventurous Seven: Their Hazardous Undertaking
Bessie Marchant
A family of seven orphaned siblings journeys across the world to Australia to track down their banished, disgraced father and rebuild their home.
Forests of Maine: Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge
Jacob Abbott
A summer journey toward Canada becomes an educational excursion through logging camps, steam mills, and the dense pine forests of Maine.
The Story of Wool
Sara Ware Bassett
A young city boy travels with his father to an Idaho sheep ranch, discovering the hard work of the range, the intricate science of wool production, and his own unexpected passion for Western life.
Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor
Honor, devotion, and tragic frailty intertw in a world where knights test their virtue against impossible vows and treacherous lands.
Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor
A brave heart and a dragon's blood cannot save a hero from the subtle poison of human jealousy.
A Pirate of Parts
Richard Neville
An itinerant troupe of nineteenth-century actors, led by a resourceful manager, travels America's waterways and small towns, stitching together performances out of sheer bravado, theatrical trickery, and whatever makeshift stages they can build.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca: Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece
Homer
A hero spent twenty years trying to get home, only to find that his hardest battle waited on his own doorstep.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
A boundless ocean of Eastern folklore weaves magic, mortal ambition, and high drama into a single sprawling canvas of human imagination.
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Driven by scientific curiosity and an unyielding sense of duty, a team of British explorers journeys into the frozen heart of Antarctica, where stunning natural wonder collides with unimaginable physical suffering and ultimate, quiet tragedy.
Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
A young wild elephant is captured in the Indian jungle, shipped across the sea, and taught to perform under the big top.
The Story of the White-Rock Cove
Anonymous
A lonely boy on the English coast receives the companion he has always wanted, only to find that jealousy, hidden deceit, and a near-fatal accident threaten to destroy their bond.
The pirate shark
Elliott Whitney
When a seventeen-year-old mechanic forces his way onto a South Pacific-bound yacht, he stumbles into a web of mutiny, native intrigue, and a legend of sunken Spanish gold guarded by a monstrous, hose-cutting shark.
A Wounded Name
Charles King
Bound by strict codes of duty, a stoic cavalry officer navigates false accusations and deadly frontier conflicts to protect his honor and the vulnerable woman he loves.
The Wallypug in London
G. E. (George Edward) Farrow
When an eccentric, crown-wearing monarch from a land of total nonsense descends upon Victorian London, urban domesticity yields to utter chaotic silliness.