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Tom Wallis: A Tale of the South Seas
Louis Becke
A brave Australian lad is swept to sea and cast into the adventurous expanse of the nineteenth-century Pacific.
Budd Boyd's Triumph
William P. (William Pendleton) Chipman
A young lad walking the storm-swept coast of Narragansett Bay carrying only a small bundle must face false accusations, financial ruin, and the harsh Atlantic tides to reclaim his family's honor.
Moonfleet
John Meade Falkner
When a orphan boy accidentally uncovers a secret smuggling ring in his quiet Dorset village, a lost diamond leads him into a decade-long ordeal of outlawry, exile, and redemption.
The Last Shot
Frederick Palmer
When two neighboring nations collide in total warfare, a woman of peace, an ambitious field marshal, and an idealist officer find their destinies bound to the fate of a border province.
Wings of the Wind
Credo Fitch Harris
A returned soldier's restless hunt across the Caribbean unleashes an island rescue, stolen identity, and a choice between a throne and love.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian
Charles Morris
A clash of steel, a rush of frozen waters, and the thunder of ancient sea-kings echo through this vivid sweeping chronicle of northern rule.
Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories
Will C. (Will Croft) Barnes
Riding through red-rock canyons, flash floods, and blinding sandstorms, the cowboys and range riders of the turn-of-the-century Southwest confront stampeding herds, outlaw steers, and the rugged, unforgiving wilderness of an American frontier fast passing into history.
Hiram the Young Farmer
Burbank L. Todd
A rural boy abandons his dead-end city jobs to revive a run-down homestead, proving that honest toil, clear thinking, and devotion to the land yield a rich life.
Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846
Joel Palmer
An unvarnished day-by-day record of the long overland trek to Oregon captures the grinding reality, unexpected beauty, and practical logistics of mid-nineteenth-century American westward expansion.
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
Victor Appleton
Deep in the Honduran jungle, an ancient city lies buried under centuries of soil, guarding a multi-ton idol of solid gold. Two competing scientific expeditions race through treacherous wilderness to unearth it first.
Careers of Danger and Daring
Cleveland Moffett
A life spent suspended over a void, working deep underwater, or standing before a caged lion requires a steady pulse and a peculiar, learned discipline.
Huntingtower
John Buchan
When a newly retired Scottish grocer sets out on a quiet walking tour, he stumbles into a web of international intrigue, a besieged seaside mansion, and a captive Russian princess.
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
Beneath the sunlit pastures and limestone hills of France and Switzerland lie quiet, frozen caverns where massive ice-structures endure through summer heat.
Of Captain Mission
Daniel Defoe
A visionary French privateer turns his crew into a radical sea-faring commonwealth before establishing a stateless, egalitarian colony on the coast of Madagascar.
Songs of Sea and Sail
Thomas Fleming Day
The oceanic world comes alive through verse that captures the raw power of open water, the mechanical grace of rigged vessels, and the quiet camaraderie of men at sea.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum
Long before Achilles fought at Troy, a generation of demigods and heroes sailed to the ends of the known earth aboard a living ship.
The Teeth of the Tiger
Maurice Leblanc
A shadowy villain removes every heir to a massive fortune, framing an innocent woman; only a dead master-burglar operating under a battle-tested alias can outwit the plot.
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
Zane Grey
A dying tenderfoot flees into the Utah badlands, where a devout Mormon patriarch gives him a home, a gun, and a second chance at life.
The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle
Katherine Stokes
A four-girl motoring club crosses the Atlantic, touring Great Britain and Ireland in a red automobile while unwittingly unraveling a high-society conspiracy of theft, kidnapping, and inherited vengeance.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Two lovers, a Mediterranean captain and a German spy, are drawn into a web of war, betrayal, and tragic sea-bound retribution.
The Children of the New Forest
Frederick Marryat
A family of orphans finds refuge in the rugged wilderness of a royal forest, learning to survive while the storm of the English Civil War rages around their hidden home.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930
Various
A pulp magazine blends melodrama and raw imagination, taking readers from the abyss of the ocean to the depths of time.
The secret of the island
Jules Verne
A group of American castaways builds a thriving industrial sanctuary on an uncharted Pacific island, only to discover their survival is secretly orchestrated by a legendary recluse.