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The Lost Continent
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Before the great island sank beneath the waves, its rulers grew so arrogant they challenged the Gods themselves.
Hunting in Many Lands: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
Unknown
Across vast wild terrains, hunters share tales of pursuit, physical peril, and rugged wilderness, ultimately turning their sights toward wildlife conservation and the defense of public lands.
Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim: Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
A lost love letter, an intercepted courier, and a dead king’s substitute spark a desperate, silent war in the dark corridors of Ruritania.
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
A homeless Irish-English orphan boy navigates the vibrant, sprawling roads of British-ruled India, caught between the mystical quest of a Tibetan monk and the deadly shadow-games of imperial espionage.
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Jack London
In the windswept waters of San Francisco Bay, teenage patrolmen wage a dangerous, high-stakes game of speed and strategy against ruthless illegal fishermen.
Popular Adventure Tales
Mayne Reid
A young traveler does not need a map so much as a curious mind, an eye for track and wing, and the quiet steady courage that turns every wild corner into a place to stand.
The Goddess of Atvatabar: Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar
William Richard Bradshaw
Through a polar chasm at the edge of the world lies a hollow interior planet of eternal daylight, where gravity is light, art and invention are worshipped, and a tragic goddess awaits a conqueror.
Montezuma's Daughter
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Driven across the ocean to avenge a family tragedy, an Elizabethan Englishman is drawn into the fall of the Aztec Empire, torn between a native princess and his distant homeland.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. VI (of VI), "Spanish Passions": The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
Giacomo Casanova
An aging adventurer wanders through a fading eighteenth-century Europe, where his once-irresistible charm yields to prison bars, violent ambushes, card-table swindles, and the quiet, melancholic ache of growing old.
The outlaw of Torn
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A kidnapped prince, raised by a vengeful swordmaster to hate his own bloodline, becomes medieval England's most feared outlaw before discovering his true birthright.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Desire, betrayal, and magic collide across a sprawling maze of nocturnal tales, where a single night's survival hinges on the power of a well-told story.
Rollo on the Rhine
Jacob Abbott
A boy watches an old wooden crane atop an unfinished cathedral spire and marvels that it stood untouched for centuries. That quiet moment of curiosity captures the essence of a mid-nineteenth-century European journey seen through youthful eyes.
A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance
Charles Lever
A romantic young Irishman journeys across Europe, endlessly reimagining his own identity to escape his humble origins and chase an impossible, grander life.
Seventy years on the frontier
Alexander Majors
A life spent hauling freight across uncharted plains reveals a West shaped by grueling labor, quiet diplomacy, and the steady march of industrial progress.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
Charles Lever
An officer of light foot moves from mess-table to ballroom to duel-ground, chased by his own comical mistakes and the ladies he courts.
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A delusional country gentleman takes up a rusty lance to revive knight-errantry, dragging his pragmatic neighbor into a world where windmills become towering giants.
The Scalp Hunters
Mayne Reid
A wild, romantic adventure across 1840s New Mexico follows an American traveler as he joins a ruthless band of mercenaries to rescue a young woman from captivity.
The Elusive Pimpernel
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
A daring British hero faces down the dark mechanisms of the French Revolution to save the innocent and protect the woman he loves.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Charles Herbert Sylvester
A vivid tapestry of high-seas piracy, frontier battles, historical turning points, and Shakespearean magic awaits readers who venture inside this classic collection.
Where the strange trails go down
E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
An adventurous American traveler cuts through early twentieth-century Southeast Asia, uncovering the stark contrasts between colonial administration, lush wilderness, and ancient native kingdoms across the Malay Archipelago.
She and Allan
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
An aging hunter journeys past the edges of known maps, drawn into a web of sorcery, lost tribes, and a legendary queen who commands both life and death.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930
Various
A swarm of deadly deep-sea terrors, secret jungle empires, subterranean mutants, and space-faring bandits collide in a pulp science-fiction anthology built on sheer, unrestrained adventure.
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A timid draper’s assistant trades the shop counter for a two-week bicycle holiday across southern England, only to find himself unexpectedly acting as knight-errant to a runaway young woman escaping a deceitful companion.
The Rainy Day Railroad War
Holman Day
Deep in the Maine woods, a headstrong young engineer discovers that laying six miles of narrow-gauge track takes far more than survey lines—it demands outwitting timber barons, surviving winter kidnappings, and taming the wild northern wilderness.
The Scientific American Boy
A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
A group of resourceful boys transforms an island summer into a masterclass in practical engineering, turning timber, rope, and raw determination into functional bridges, sails, and wilderness shelters. <Image alt="Original cover of The Scientific American Boy showing campers around a campfire with engineering…
Pioneers in Canada
Harry Johnston
Dense forests, treacherous icy waterways, and vast unmapped territories frame a centuries-long struggle to unlock a continent.
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
Robert Louis Stevenson
Underneath the clashing swords of the Wars of the Roses, a young orphan discovers that the guardian he trusted murdered his father.
We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run
Jim Kjelgaard
Crossing the line before the gun sounds means risking everything, but holding back might cost a family their future.
Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories: Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews
Jack London
A world of raw muscle, sudden violence, and fierce loyalty awaits beneath the calm surface of civilized life.
The Discovery of Guiana
Walter Raleigh
Dense jungle waterways, volatile river swells, and the glittering promise of unmapped empires shape a high-stakes bid to win the favor of a Tudor monarch.
The Light of the Western Stars
Zane Grey
A high-society woman from the East arrives in a rugged, lawless New Mexico town, only to find her destiny entangled with a self-destructive cowboy who harbors a secret that threatens both their lives.
The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
A veteran explorer recounts the meticulous, decades-long campaign to reach the North Pole, culminating in a final, hard-won journey across the shifting, treacherous ice of the high Arctic.
The People of the Mist
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
A desperate oath to reclaim a lost family estate drives two brothers into the heart of Africa, where ancient terrors and hidden treasures await.
Astoria
Washington Irving
A sweeping chronicle of the Pacific Fur Company’s ill-fated attempt to build a commercial empire on the shores of the Columbia River, blending historical rigor with the spirit of high adventure.
Double Challenge
Jim Kjelgaard
A young man and his loyal collie navigate the wild mountains of the Mahela, struggling to clear his father’s name after a wrongful accusation of poaching turns their peaceful life into a desperate, high-stakes flight.
The Adventures of Reddy Fox
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
A boastful young fox learns the hard way that cleverness is no substitute for caution when he draws the dangerous attention of a determined boy and his hound.
Held by Chinese Brigands
Charles Gilson
A perilous journey through the rugged mountains of Southern China awaits those who dare to challenge a ruthless bandit chief. This classic adventure pits youthful courage against the shadows of a dangerous underworld.
Tales of fishes
Zane Grey
The pursuit of the world’s most elusive giants beneath the waves offers a profound, rugged intimacy with the sea. This record of ocean angling captures the raw power of the hunt and the vast, untamed beauty of the Pacific coast.
The Mad King
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the volatile, mountainous kingdom of Lutha, a simple traveler from Nebraska is mistaken for the missing, long-imprisoned monarch, triggering a desperate struggle for the throne.
Sea Stories
Unknown
The sea has always served as the ultimate testing ground for human mettle, a vast and indifferent stage where the line between survival and oblivion is drawn by the shifting of a wind.
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A chance encounter between a desperate businessman and an eccentric scientist leads to the invention of a gravity-defying material and a voyage to a lunar world of terrifying, insect-like intelligence.
The Road to Oz
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A girl from Kansas and a curious stranger embark on a whimsical trek through magical lands, guided by a mysterious horseshoe that compels every living thing they encounter to love them.
Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
Herbert Strang
A young man navigates the perilous landscape of the Russo-Japanese War to rescue his father from a Siberian prison camp. It is a classic tale of endurance, resourcefulness, and the shifting loyalties of wartime.
The illustrated Tarzan book no. 1
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A refined English lord, orphaned in the African wilderness and raised by a tribe of great apes, must navigate the chasm between his savage upbringing and his true, hidden identity.
Tales of lonely trails
Zane Grey
The majesty of the American West serves as both a sanctuary and a mirror in these rugged, contemplative accounts of wilderness travel. It captures a vanishing frontier through the eyes of a man seeking clarity in the silence of the desert and mountain.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930
Various
This collection gathers five distinct tales of speculative invention, capturing the dawn of an era where scientific marvels—from invisibility and mind control to subatomic travel—threaten to outpace the moral readiness of humanity.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
Joseph Conrad
A solitary, masterful sea captain finds his carefully ordered life of adventure and influence shattered when he becomes entangled with the occupants of a stranded luxury yacht.
The Royal Book of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Scarecrow’s search for his family origins leads him to a distant, magical realm where he is mistaken for a long-lost royal figure. Alongside Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion, he navigates a series of strange encounters in a quest to return home.