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A Texas Ranger
William MacLeod Raine
The frontier holds no secrets for the man who rides with iron resolve, even when the law he serves is a stranger to the land he defends.
Atlantida
Pierre Benoît
Two French officers discover a hidden, ancient civilization deep in the Sahara, where a beautiful, lethal queen holds captive the men who fall under her spell.
The Backwoodsman
Unknown
A self-reliant pioneer carves a life on the edge of the Texas frontier, where the boundless prairie meets the rugged mountains and the shifting boundaries of indigenous territories.
The Leopard Woman
Stewart Edward White
HOOK A seasoned ivory hunter and a mysterious, high-born woman compete to reach a powerful African chieftain first. Their rivalry deepens into a dangerous, high-stakes game of manipulation amidst the unforgiving isolation of the veldt.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World
Paul Boyton
A man in a rubber suit traverses the great rivers of the world, testing his endurance against whirlpools, predators, and the sheer unpredictability of the elements.
Told by the death's head
Mór Jókai
A skull suspended in a fortress, once a man of many sins, recounts his bizarre journey through a life of impossible adventures. This is the confession of a rogue who has seen it all.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober
A penniless debtor escapes his creditors in a wooden cask, only to carve his name into history across the jungle rivers and perilous peaks of Central America.
Dangers of the Trail in 1865: A Narrative of Actual Events
Charles E. (Charles Edward) Young
Crossing the violent 1865 frontier, a young man faces stampedes, Indian attacks, and ruthlessness while freighting supplies across the plains to Denver.
Our Little Cossack Cousin in Siberia
Fedor Alexis Postnikov
Living along the wild Amur River, a young boy grows up amid frontier dangers, traditional duties, and the proud military customs of a Cossack settlement.
Pluck on the Long Trail
Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
A group of Boy Scouts must trek across the rugged Rocky Mountain wilderness to deliver an urgent message while outsmarting rival boys, poachers, and natural disasters.
The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure
Arthur Heming
A winter in the Canadian north unfolds through the eyes of an artist who travels into the deep wilderness alongside an Ojibwa chief and his family.
The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return
William Le Queux
Across the sun-scorched sands of North Africa, a marked Dervish soldier risks death, captivity, and impossible terrain to unravel a ancient, dark secret stamped onto his own skin.
Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
Agnes C. Laut
Courage, desperation, and greed drive an array of global adventurers across the uncharted Pacific to claim the riches of North America's western edge.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
Irving Bacheller
A pioneer family travels west by covered wagon, carving out a home in the Illinois wilderness alongside a tall, awkward young clerk named Abe Lincoln.
Across the Andes
Charles Johnson Post
The edge of the wilderness tests every pretense of modern life. Between the snow line of the Andes and the rubber ports of the Amazon lies a world governed by swift currents, steep passes, and unforgiving endurance.
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
An English lad rides into the treacherous world of Fifteenth-Century border warfare, learning that surviving the clash between Hotspur and Owen Glendower requires a quick brain as well as a heavy sword.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Driven by a restless frontier spirit, a illiterate backwoodsman rises from humble poverty to the halls of Congress and the bloody ramparts of the Alamo.
His Unknown Wife
Louis Tracy
A condemned American escapes a South American firing squad by marrying a mysterious stranger, only to end up shipwrecked with her on the desolate Chilean coast.
In Far Bolivia: A Story of a Strange Wild Land
Gordon Stables
A stolen heiress, a treacherous uncle, and a gun-toting wolf-hound collide in a high-octane Victorian jungle yarn where South American waterways flow with gold, blood, and constant peril.
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges
A young Australian recruit and a former British sailor's son throw themselves into the chaos of the Gallipoli campaign, where courage and resourcefulness are tested against relentless Turkish fire.
The Escaping Club
A. J. (Alfred John) Evans
A British aviator captured in the First World War treats his captivity not as a sentence, but as a high-stakes game of endurance, strategy, and relentless escape across enemy lines.
The King of the Mountains
Edmond About
A young German botanist is captured by a ruthless Greek bandit who runs his ransom ring like a joint-stock company.
The tale of Buster Bumblebee
Arthur Scott Bailey
A lazy, handsome drone navigates the gentle perils and absurd misunderstandings of meadow life, blissfully unaware of his own comic uselessness.
Uncle Sam, Detective
William Atherton DuPuy
A sleek, early-twentieth-century federal agent matching wits with clever swindlers, gun-toting moonshiners, and global smugglers reveals the unglamorous, methodical reality of true American criminal investigation.
With Moore at Corunna
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
An Irish officer’s quick wits save a regimental wing at sea and launch him into the heart of the Peninsular War.
Beltane the Smith
Jeffery Farnol
A gentle giant bred to forge iron finds himself thrust into a bloody struggle to reclaim his birthright and deliver a oppressed duchy from tyranny.
Elissa
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Two lovers across culture and creed are swept into a deadly storm of jealousy, war, and religious fervor during the sudden, violent downfall of an ancient African empire.
From Sand Hill to Pine
Bret Harte
A collection of short stories set in the American West, exploring themes of adventure, love, and the human condition.
Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane
A firsthand account of the life and adventures of Calamity Jane, a legendary figure of the American West.
Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Separated by violence, guided by visions, and hunted across the South African veldt, two lovers race against a vengeful enemy to reclaim their stolen lives.
The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Second: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Siam and Java
Thomas Wallace Knox
Two American youths and their learned mentor travel across Southeast Asia, recording the architecture, wildlife, and cultures of a rapidly changing world.
The Castle Inn
Stanley John Weyman
An eighteenth-century heiress is spirited along dark roads while gamblers, fortune-hunters, and an aristocratic rogue race through Wiltshire inns to claim or rescue her.
The Cave of Gold: A Tale of California in '49
Everett McNeil
A pair of young ranch boys in 1849 California brave wild bears, crooked gold-rush boomtowns, and ruthless ambushers to locate a secret mountain cavern stuffed with crude gold nuggets.
The Courage of Marge O'Doone
James Oliver Curwood
Driven by a mysterious photograph and a desire for renewal, a man plunges into the frozen Canadian wilderness, where he finds unexpected comradeship, a rescued half-wolf dog, and a young woman fighting for her freedom.
The lieutenant and commander
Basil Hall
A life at sea demands absolute discipline tempered by humanity, bridging the wild unpredictability of the ocean with the rigid mechanics of naval duty.
The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston
Emerson Hough
Gambling debts, a fatal duel in the dark, and a daring escape from Newgate send a brilliant Scotsman fleeing across the Atlantic, where the vast wilderness of the Mississippi inspires the grandest financial scheme in history.
The Texan: A Story of the Cattle Country
James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
A quick-witted Texas cowpuncher navigates the high-stakes politics and rough country of the Montana badlands, risking everything for an Eastern woman and her city-bred companion.
True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old
Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
Where men and mountain meet, character is tested without the distraction of audience or competition.
A Hero of Ticonderoga
Rowland Evans Robinson
Against the silent wilderness of eighteenth-century Vermont, a boy learns the woodcraft of survival just as political feuds and the sparks of the American Revolution break across his home.
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A young Englishman in revolutionary France risks his life to rescue a condemned aristocratic family from the guillotine.
Jacob Faithful
Frederick Marryat
Born on a Thames barge and orphaned by a sudden tragedy, a river boy must navigate class, crime, and naval press-gangs as he carves out his place in early nineteenth-century London.
Old French Romances, Done into English
William Morris
Bound by vows of sworn fellowship, cosmic destinies, and unforgiving trial, medieval figures navigate a perilous landscape where human devotion faces the absolute limits of mortal endurance.
The Long Labrador Trail
Dillon Wallace
A harrowing expedition into the uncharted Labrador wilderness transforms a tragic promise into a historic triumph of survival and mapping.
The Sea Lions
James Fenimore Cooper
An obsessive quest for antarctic seals and buried treasure turns into a harrowing trial of survival among polar icebergs, where human greed yields to the humbling vastness of nature and divine power.
The Sheik: A Novel
E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
A fearless young Englishwoman rides alone into the Algerian desert, seeking absolute independence, only to be abducted by a ruthless chieftain whose violent dominance gives way to an unexpected, life-altering passion.
Vine and Olive
Oliver Optic
Two rebellious American midshipmen attempt to burn their academy ship off the Spanish coast, while a wealthy Spanish student flees a predatory guardian who claims legal custody of his vast fortune.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
Andy Adams
Stranded on the Kansas plains, two teenaged brothers build an imperiled cattle empire from the discarded strays, crippled stock, and hard-won wisdom of passing trail drives.
Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A young British aviator takes to the clouds, facing down Zeppelins and secret agents to defend his country.