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Adventure — page 5
3,840 public-domain adventure books, summarised. Page 5 of 80.
Frank Merriwell's Bravery
Burt L. Standish
A young man’s courage and quick wit are tested in the wild American West, where danger lurks in outlaw hideouts, treacherous canyons, and the threat of lynch mobs.
Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery
Jules Verne
HOOK A restless young heir seeks adventure beyond his privileged life, only to face a harrowing shipwreck and survival on a mysterious Pacific island where nothing is quite as it seems.
Isle o' Dreams
Frederick Ferdinand Moore
HOOK A mysterious island rumored to hold gold draws a disparate group into a tense voyage marked by mutiny, secrets, and shifting loyalties in the tropical seas near the Philippines.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence
Alice B. Emerson
A young woman’s journey into the world of early motion pictures leads her to the mysterious Thousand Islands, where friendship, danger, and cultural clashes intertwine in a tale of courage and discovery.
The Long Portage
Harold Bindloss
A rugged expedition into the wilds of British Columbia unearths more than just untamed landscapes—it reveals the tangled human struggles of ambition, loyalty, and the clash between old-world gentility and new-world grit.
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour
George A. Warren
A troop sets out for a wilderness hike and keeps finding trouble already waiting ahead of them. What begins as camp craft and banter turns into a chase through a mountain country where thieves, storm, and bad luck keep changing the ground under their feet.
Shoe-Bar Stratton
Joseph Bushnell Ames
HOOK A man returns to a troubled ranch haunted by secrets, rustlers, and a mysterious foreman, where loyalty and justice clash under the vast, unforgiving Western sky.
A Mating in the Wilds
Ottwell Binns
A man and a woman are thrown together in the northern wilderness, where every mile of river, snow, and forest tests trust, courage, and desire. Around them, old injuries and fresh lies move as dangerously as the current.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman: or Making Good
Albert Walter Tolman
HOOK In the rugged Maine coast’s relentless sea, four young men confront nature’s harsh demands, learning that true strength is earned through grit, honesty, and hard, unglamorous labor.
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
HOOK A young boy’s adventures with the U.S. Weather Bureau reveal the fierce power of nature and the science that battles it, blending thrilling rescues with the wonder of meteorology.
An Undivided Union
Oliver Optic
A teenage major rides through a war that is as much rescue mission as campaign. Around him, raids, prison escapes, stolen horses, and a missing paper keep turning military duty into personal crisis.
Baseball Joe Around the World
Lester Chadwick
HOOK A young baseball star embarks on a thrilling global journey, facing fierce rivals, unexpected dangers, and cultural wonders, all while defending his honor and love.
The Gold Girl
James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
A determined young woman stakes her claim in the rugged hills, facing lawlessness, loneliness, and the shadows of her father’s legacy in a fierce race for gold.
King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
Henry Gilbert
A kingdom built on courage and honor comes apart through pride, rumor, and divided loyalties. Its brightest deeds are splendid, but the ending is a grave march through betrayal, loss, and penance.
Plotting in Pirate Seas
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
HOOK A young journalist finds himself deep in the web of international intrigue, navigating the dangerous waters of the Caribbean where colonial ghosts and modern conspiracies collide.
The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan
James Otis
A sudden gale, a shattered yacht, and an uncharted wilderness push three castaways into a dangerous journey toward a legendary, hidden city of silver.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
Charles Winslow Hall
A gripping tale of survival and adventure unfolds amid the vast, frozen ice-fields of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where hunters face nature’s harshest trials and unexpected human dramas.
The Book of Romance
Unknown
A sweeping collection of medieval and legendary tales, weaving chivalry, quests, and heroic deeds into a timeless tapestry of romance and adventure.
The Girl and the Bill: An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure
Bannister Merwin
A simple five-dollar bill carrying a scribbled secret pulls an unsuspecting Eastern lawyer into a high-stakes conspiracy across Chicago, where foreign agents, midnight chases, and an extraordinary woman reshape his world forever.
Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope
Victor Appleton
A giant green lens from space allows a young inventor to look past the limits of human sight and peer into the secrets of the cosmos.
Queensland Cousins
Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
When an English family’s wild Australian isolation gives way to a perilous sea voyage and a cold British reception, a boy’s fierce loyalty to a trusted friend holds the key to surviving heartbreak and displacement.
The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch
Edward Stratemeyer
Four cousins leave their East Coast military academy behind for a summer on a Wyoming cattle ranch, where simple outdoor recreation turns into a series of wilderness encounters, local rivalries, and solved mysteries.
Seek and Find
Oliver Optic
Courage and quick thinking drive a resourceful young man to rescue an abused girl, outwit his scheming family, and trace his missing mother across the Atlantic.
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur
Mary-Lafon, Jean Bernard Lafon, called
A young knight of the Round Table rides out from Arthur’s court to avenge an insult and returns with a wife, a fief, and a string of humbled tyrants.
A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45
William MacLeod Raine
A penniless Englishman in Georgian London falls into a Jacobite rescue plot, only to find himself dragged from rowdy taverns to the bloody heather of Culloden.
The Rover Boys Under Canvas
Edward Stratemeyer
A secret German U-boat base, a fiery industrial disaster, and a campus election converge in this classic high-spirited adventure of American youth taking on the Home Front.
The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
Roger T. (Roger Thompson) Finlay
When cast away on a remote Pacific island with no modern tools, a resourceful group of white castaways uses engineering, statecraft, and Christian patience to bring warring native tribes under a single civilized government.
Dave Porter and His Rivals
Edward Stratemeyer
An upright schoolboy faces down reckless drivers, bitter academic rivals, and a dark kidnapping plot during a turbulent term at Oak Hall.
The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay
Margaret Penrose
A group of quick-witted young women set out for a summer of boating on the coast, only to find themselves shielding a vulnerable family from a predatory land grab.
Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish
This is a fast-paced tale of an irrepressible American youth whose boundless confidence and physical prowess carry him through a series of escalating, high-stakes encounters across Mexico and the American South.
Across the Mesa
Helen Bagg
This adventure, set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, follows a spirited young woman who defies convention to join her brother at a remote mining outpost, only to find herself embroiled in regional turmoil and romance.
With Cochrane the Dauntless
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Shipwrecked in the East Indies and embroiled in South American revolutions, a young British sailor learns that fortitude, fairness, and absolute loyalty mean more than the fortunes acquired along the way.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
Unknown
High in the wilderness, around the crackle of open flames, tales of wild stallions, frontier brawls, desolate Alaskan trails, and solitary ironmen test the true limits of human grit and character.
A Bid for Fortune
Guy Boothby
A man steps into a trap set across two hemispheres, where an enigmatic mastermind plays for high stakes and an ancient secret holds the key to power.
The Hunters of the Ozark
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Separated from their families, two young frontier companions face hostile native tracks, wild beasts, and violent sudden storms across an untamed eighteenth-century wilderness.
The White Mice
Richard Harding Davis
An idealistic young American engineer risks life, job, and family ties to pull an imprisoned statesman out of a South American dungeon.
The Motor Pirate
G. Sidney Paternoster
An extraordinary masked villain in a whisper-silent, high-speed automobile terrorizes the English countryside, leaving police baffled and motorists ruined.
From the Car Behind
Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
Fast cars, high-society romance, and a mysterious accusation converge when a devastating track disaster forces a wealthy young motorist to choices that test his honor.
The Young Miner
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Driven by a desire to rescue his family's farm from foreclosure, a young New Englander sets out for the gold fields of California, testing his wits against claim-jumpers, predators, and the chaotic frontier.
The Aztec Treasure-House
Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
Lost in the mountains of Mexico, a band of adventurers hazards everything to find a hidden Aztec city, where ancient faith, vast gold, and deadly peril await.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea: Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure
Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston
A vast sheet of unknown possibilities stretches away from the land, beckoning daring souls into the fog-bound ocean. Behind every legendary cruise lies a story of fierce battling for patriotism, plunder, and survival.
The Land of the Long Night
Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
A journey across frozen tundras reveals the raw power of the Far North, where survival depends on human warmth, indigenous wisdom, and sheer endurance.
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Along the foggy waterways of coastal Maine, three young friends and a clever detective pursue a gang of dangerous boat-borne burglars across calm inlets and hidden island hideouts.
Laboulaye's Fairy Book
Édouard Laboulaye
This lively nineteenth-century collection uses playful satire, colorful enchantments, and sharp humor to rewrite traditional fairy tales for readers who love clever heroines and ridiculous kings.
The Dude Wrangler
Caroline Lockhart
A soft-spoken Eastern gentleman trading velvet rugs for Wyoming dirt finds that overcoming the West—and his own meek reputation—takes far more grit than he ever bargained for.
The Sign of the Spider
Bertram Mitford
Desperate for money and suffocated by a souring marriage, an English trader abandons respectable poverty for South Africa, only to discover that the fastest way out of financial ruin is a ruthless march into the uncharted interior.
Frank Merriwell's Son
Burt L. Standish
A father’s legacy casts a long shadow over a bustling New England estate, where old college bonds, sports field rivalries, and sudden domestic perils test a legendary hero's inner circle.
Free Air
Sinclair Lewis
A young Brooklyn woman flees eastern conventions behind the wheel of a sixty-horsepower roadster, discovering that the muddy trails of the American West demand far more grit than her polite upbringing ever prepared her to give.