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The moving picture boys at Panama
Victor Appleton
A runaway carriage in a small American town, a mysterious South American passenger, and a grand engineering project thousands of miles away converge into an early twentieth-century juvenile adventure.
The Strength of the Pines
Edison Marshall
A quiet young city dweller travels to the Oregon wilderness to reclaim his father's forgotten homestead, only to find himself embroiled in a deadly feud with a ruthless mountain clan.
The Wayfarers
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
A young nobleman wakes from a night of heavy drinking to find himself ruined, pursued, and forced onto the open roads of eighteenth-century England in disguise.
The Web of the Golden Spider
Frederick Orin Bartlett
A young woman follows a hypnotic vision across the sea, drawing an aimless Bostonian into a deadly hunt for lost South American gold.
A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812: In Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian islands, and the Sandwich Islands were Visited
Archibald Campbell
A young Scottish seaman endures shipwreck in the frigid Aleutians, severe frostbite, and life-altering amputations before finding shelter, recovery, and purpose in early nineteenth-century Hawaii.
Agent Nine and the Jewel Mystery: A Story of Thrilling Exploits of the "G" Men
Graham M. Dean
A green G-man matches wits with a petty departmental rival, a diamond-smuggling syndicate, and a missing mentor across rain-swept Southern Limited tracks and murky coastal bayous.
By England's Aid
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In late sixteenth-century Europe, two country-bred brothers leave the quiet fields of Essex for the bloody sieges of Holland, discovering that survival requires courage, wits, and an unshakeable allegiance to home.
Corse de Leon
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
A youth returns from war to claim his bride, only to be cast into a web of Italian treachery and French court intrigue.
Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills
George Manville Fenn
High in the Himalayan passes, a young officer and his Cockney orderly test their endurance against brutal terrain and hostile hill-tribes.
Frances of the Ranges
Amy Bell Marlowe
A sharp-eyed Texas girl rides out to protect her father's ranch, matching wits with border outlaws, greedy treasure-seekers, and the condescension of visiting city folk.
Highway Pirates
Harold Avery
When a schoolboy prank leads to unexpected detention, two young friends stumble into an intricate web of coastal smuggling, hidden passages, and high-stakes inheritance theft.
In a Hollow of the Hills
Bret Harte
In the shadowy, treacherous passes of the California mountains, an honest man's devotion and a stranger's romantic obsession unravel a hidden world of outlaws, buried silver, and double lives.
Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
Unknown
The relentless pursuit of the unknown drives men to abandon the comforts of home, choosing instead the peril of uncharted horizons and the harsh lessons of the wild.
Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat
Owen Wister
A clear-eyed journey across frozen tundras and rugged mountain peaks reveals the magnificent big game animals of North America.
Nick of the Woods
Robert Montgomery Bird
In the dark forests of revolutionary-era Kentucky, a murderous specter wages a private war against native tribes, upending the lives of settlers and savages alike.
Recollections of a Pioneer
J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson
A lone Missouri farmer rides across thousands of miles of wilderness, drives cattle through hostile territories, survives civil war skirmishes, and returns to the soil with his quiet dignity intact.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest
Alice B. Emerson
A young film writer and her courageous Indian star navigate wild horses, runaway logging drives, and an vengeful showman in the American West.
Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning
Graham M. Dean
A young cowboy and his red sorrel mare head into a shadow-drenched mountain basin to break up a ruthless cattle-rustling ring.
The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat
Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917
Young American patriots outwit British officers, hostile Tories, and treacherous wilderness roads to secure General Burgoyne's defeat during the pivotal Saratoga Campaign of 1777.
The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
John Henry Goldfrap
A secretive government invention, ocean-bound saboteurs, and a crew of courageous Boy Scouts collide off the Atlantic coast in a high-stakes struggle to protect national interests.
The Door into Infinity
Edmond Hamilton
Crossing into another reality is not a matter of theory; it is a hidden legacy that demands fresh blood every year.
The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
A young team of scientists races a ticking geological clock on a tropical island while sabotage and political greed threaten their high-stakes effort to save thousands of lives.
The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
John Randolph Spears
A cold wind sweeps through the granite channels and barren pampas of the deep South, where gold prospectors, native hunters, and earnest missionaries all seek a living at the end of the inhabited world.
The Golden Magnet
George Manville Fenn
In the high Andes and tangled river-forests of nineteenth-century South America, a young English traveler and his fiercely loyal companion fight through swarming crocodiles, ancient ruins, and murderous rivals to win a hidden Inca fortune.
Wolf Breed
Jackson Gregory
A stubborn prospector finds fortune in the northern wilderness, only to risk his life, his sanity, and his soul chasing the woman who played him for a fool.
Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
An island hermit, a mysterious orphan, and a ferocious pirate collide beneath the shadow of Krakatoa just as history’s greatest volcanic explosion shatters the Sunda Straits.
Faces and Places
Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir
A seasoned London journalist crisscrosses Victorian Britain and the Continent, bringing a keen reporter’s eye and dry wit to balloon launches, parliamentary debates, mountain refuges, and evangelical revivals.
Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio
Hugh McAlister
A curious boy turns an antique static machine into a lifelong mastery of wireless signals that saves an Arctic expedition.
The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice
John Henry Goldfrap
A wide-eyed Catskill farm boy marvels at a colorful recruitment poster in a country store, setting off a rapid chain of events that carries two mountain youths straight onto the steel decks of a giant American battleship.
The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure
Mayne Reid
Stranded along the frozen coasts of Tierra del Fuego, a lost American crew must rely on an old sailor's wilderness lore to survive hostile weather and native encounters.
The Long Dim Trail
Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker
A weary young mother on an isolated Arizona homestead faces the terror of an Indian raid while her volatile husband leaves her to bear the brunt of frontier life.
The Rival Campers Afloat
Ruel Perley Smith
Two rival groups of Maine teenage boys spend a lively summer racing sailboats, settling small-town squabbles, and uncovering a dark mystery aboard a sunken yacht.
Through British Guiana to the summit of Roraima
Clementi, Cecil, Mrs.
Unbroken rainforests give way to sunlit tablelands and sheer vertical cliffs as a journey into South America’s hidden interior reveals the ancient, mist-shrouded summit of Roraima.
Webster—Man's Man
Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
A practical man of action steps off the desert into high society and finds himself swept into a tropical revolution.
Among the River Pirates: A Skippy Dare Mystery Story
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Desperate times on the Hudson River force a young boy to navigate a dark world of poverty, frame-ups, and river piracy to save his innocent father.
Arizona nights
Stewart Edward White
The desert is a vast, indifferent stage where the line between civilization and savagery is as thin as a rawhide rope. Here, men define themselves through endurance, loneliness, and the brutal clarity of the open range.
Exploits and adventures of a soldier ashore and afloat
William Llewellyn Adams
The life of an American soldier at the turn of the twentieth century was a curious mix of rigid military discipline and the romantic freedom of a global wanderer.
Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California: Being the Diary of an Expedition From San Francisco to the Gold Districts
Henry Vizetelly
Desperation, greed, and lawlessness collide in the Sierra foothills as a band of gold-seekers discovers that unearthing California’s wild treasure is far easier than surviving it.
Soap-bubble stories
Fanny Barry
Lit by firelight while snow falls outside, these tales carry a quiet magic that makes ordinary objects and odd little creatures feel fully alive.
Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa: A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent
Joel Tyler Headley
A single man marches into unmapped forests, braving starvation, fever, and hostile arrows to redrawn the map of a continent.
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
A frantic, chattering squirrel makes a hairbreadth escape, lands in a human house, and discovers that the terrifying world of big hands and iron cages is not as hostile as he believed.
The Fatal Cord, and The Falcon Rover
Mayne Reid
Underneath the tangle of backwoods rivalries and high-seas treachery lies a breathlessly paced story of greed, identity, and the long reach of hidden crimes.
The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason
William Le Queux
Traversing untamed West African forests and hidden mountain passes, two young men navigate deadly fetishes, bloodthirsty tyrants, and sweeping battles to reclaim a lost empire.
The Hand of Fu-Manchu: Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor
Sax Rohmer
A relentless enemy moves through the shadows of fog-bound London, driving a small group of allies across ancient manors, secret passages, and subterranean dens in a desperate, high-stakes battle against an international criminal conspiracy.
The Highwayman
H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey
Two cynical cynics clash, wed, and part in Queen Anne’s intrigue-ridden England before discovering the price of pride and the necessity of honest affection.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot
Evelyn Everett-Green
A long-buried family fortune, a fanatical household, and the shadow of the Gunpowder Plot drive a cast of young relatives into a web of forest outlaws, concealed priests, and high-stakes intrigue.
The Memoirs of a White Elephant
Judith Gautier
A grand white elephant recounts his legendary life from wild forest youth to royal glory, battlefield capture, loss, and ultimate redemption.
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms: Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida
Laura Lee Hope
A roving silent-film troupe braves ocean disasters and swampy backwaters to shoot melodramatic photoplays against the wild backdrops of early twentieth-century Florida.