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690 public-domain adventure books, summarised. Page 15 of 15.
The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail
William Henry Frost
A travel companion retells the legends of King Arthur directly to a young companion while exploring the historical, quiet landscapes of modern England.
Under the Rebel's Reign
Charles Neufeld
An adventurous young German ventures into nineteenth-century Egypt, where he finds himself trapped between imperial military campaigns, local uprisings, and personal rivalries.
Hidden Water
Dane Coolidge
When the Arizona rain breaks over Bender, it flushes out cattlemen, sheepmen, and adrift idealists, all looking for shelter or a second chance.
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
Neil Munro
A sensitive youth in the Scottish Highlands trades reality for imagination, only to watch the tangible world and the girl he loves slip through his fingers.
The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border
Zane Grey
A young man in Texas fights the wildness in his own blood and the lawless border that threatens to consume him.
Before Adam
Jack London
A modern man relives the primitive existence of a Pleistocene ancestor through an extraordinary chain of inherited genetic dreams.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2.: The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Jules Verne
Across unknown oceans and untamed continents, eighteenth-century explorers map the physical realities of the globe while facing fierce seas, unfamiliar cultures, and extreme physical exhaustion.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
An ancient king's cruelty is stayed night after night by a clever woman, whose sprawling, interwoven tales of magic, trickery, and romance keep execution at bay.
The art of travel
Francis Galton
A practical handbook written from experience, this manual turns raw wilderness into a manageable workshop for the self-reliant explorer.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
A young woman weaves a tapestry of endless night-time stories to stay the hand of a monarch intent on execution, saving a kingdom through the enchantment of narrative.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
James Justinian Morier
A penniless barber's son navigates nineteenth-century Persia through sheer opportunism, shifting seamlessly between victim and rogue across a lifetime of bizarre misadventures.
At home with the Patagonians
George C. Musters
A year-long journey alongside the Tehuelche people reveals an immense, unmapped interior where surviving requires extraordinary skill, swift horses, and deep mutual trust.
The Isle Of Pines (1668): and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford
Henry Neville
A lone Englishman and four women are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, where their isolated progeny expands over a century into a thriving, English-speaking nation.
Buck Peters, ranchman
Clarence Edward Mulford
Hard men, open range, and dirty dealing in a wide Montana sky.
A Maid at King Alfred's Court: A Story for Girls
Lucy Foster Madison
A displaced Saxon maiden uses her voice, her harp, and her courage to navigate the treacherous world of ninth-century England during King Alfred’s war with the Danes.
Notable Voyagers, From Columbus to Nordenskiold
William Henry Giles Kingston
Mariners battle uncharted oceans, treacherous currents, mutinous crews, and crushing ice fields in an expansive chronicle tracing centuries of human exploration across the globe.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
François Rabelais
Sail into a riotous Renaissance sea voyage where giant princes, crude friars, and coward fools chase oracle-wisdom across a surreal ocean of bizarre islands and absurd dogmas.
The Story of the Odyssey
Homer
A long journey home turns into a decade-long battle against monstrous beasts, treacherous seas, and vengeful suitors.