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Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest
George Bird Grinnell
In the shadow of Montana’s jagged Northern Rockies, a young easterner joins an old mountain guide for a summer of high-altitude exploration, big-game hunting, and quiet wilderness camaraderie.
Kenneth McAlpine: A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea
Gordon Stables
A young Highland shepherd travels from the Scottish hills to remote global frontiers, enduring shipwreck, captivity, and winter wilderness to claim his inheritance and win his childhood love.
The House Under the Sea: A Romance
Max Pemberton
A captain sails to a forbidding Pacific island to save his former mistress, only to discover her trapped in a nightmare of villainy, natural horror, and hidden undersea strongholds.
The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats
James R. Mears
Thrown into an ore ship’s dark hold, two ambitious young industrial inspectors battle treacherous waters, wild hazards, and rivalries to master the shipping trade of the Great Lakes.
The Martian Cabal
Roman Frederick Starzl
A corrupt oligarchy brews a war between Earth and Mars to consolidate power, while an Earth police sergeant and a displaced Martian princess navigate torture, escape, and political upheaval across the red planet.
The Palace in the Garden
Mrs. Molesworth
When three lonely children stumble upon a secret, forgotten wing of a neighboring estate, their quiet summer transforms into a world of hidden pasts and unexpected joy.
The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
An stubborn father's refusal to bless his daughter's marriage sets off a chain of frontier trials, tested to the limit when a cataclysmic flood overwhelms the settlement.
The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray Leinster
A New York office building falls out of its own era, landing two thousand confused commuters straight into pre-Columbian wilderness.
The secret of the caves
Franklin W. Dixon
A summer afternoon on the bay turns into a desperate search along treacherous coastal cliffs when two teenage brothers pull a frantic woman from the water and inherit a missing-persons case that local authorities have abandoned.
The Sword of Gideon
John Bloundelle-Burton
A cashiered officer rides into the Spanish Netherlands under a dead man’s name to rescue a young heiress, only to find that every step toward her drags them both deeper into the machinery of war.
Under the dragon flag
James Allan
Swept into a foreign conflict by a ruined fortune, a young Englishman finds himself marooned along the bloody coastline of East Asia.
Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Amid the artillery smoke and fractured alliances of the Peninsular War, a resourceful young Irish officer leads a regiment of irregulars through daring escapes, bloody sieges, and the chaos of Napoleonic Spain.
A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron
Harry Collingwood
A young midshipman takes charge of a prize vessel in hostile waters, where a single miscalculation means mutiny, shipwreck, or a pirate's cage.
Bowdoin Boys in Labrador: An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
Jonathan Prince Cilley
A wooden schooner pushes into northern mists, carrying seventeen undergraduates intent on measuring mountains, collecting seabirds, and tracking untamed rivers into the subarctic wilderness.
Frontier Boys on the Coast
Wyn Roosevelt
A group of brothers bound for the California coast are ambushed by a ruthless sea captain who intends to mold them into his crew, forcing them into a desperate, high-stakes game of pursuit across mountain trails and coastal waters.
Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune
Randall Parrish
An out-of-work laborer accepts a mysterious impersonation scheme in Chicago, only to find himself entangled in a southern estate's dark secrets and a high-seas adventure.
Left on the Prairie
Noel West
Separated from his ailing mother and deceptive uncle, a ten-year-old boy braves the harsh American wilderness, treacherous weather, and perilous mountain passes to reunite with his family across hundreds of miles of open prairie.
Meet the Tiger
Leslie Charteris
A ruthless gang, a hidden fortune, and a daring rogue set the Devonshire coast ablaze in this foundational mystery adventure.
Rollo in London
Jacob Abbott
A practical young traveler explores mid-nineteenth-century London, discovering that the foreign world opens up best to those who observe it closely and accept its sudden turns without complaint.
Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
Alexander Ross
A high-stakes commercial gamble in the Pacific Northwest quickly deteriorates into a grueling battle against treacherous surf, brutal winters, and fatal miscalculations.
Secrets of the Andes
James H. Foster
When a bridge collapse sends two young naturalists careening off course, a series of improvised connections leads them straight into the uncharted ruins and high-altitude perils of the South American mountains.
Sunset Pass
Charles King
Through the brutal heat and treacherous rock of Arizona territory, a veteran cavalry officer leads his motherless children directly into an Apache trap.
Tarzan and the city of gold
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A captive white warrior, a deadly arena, and a despotic queen with a terrifying pet lion await in the uncharted valleys of Abyssinia.
The Border Boys Across the Frontier
John Henry Goldfrap
A young American lad and his companions navigate the treacherous borderlands of Northern Chihuahua, unearthing hidden desert tunnels and thwarting a rebel conspiracy against a family mine.
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
Rolf Boldrewood
A modest civil servant on an Australian goldfield risks his last savings on an unproven reef, striking a fortune that catapults his entire family into the upper echelons of British high society.
The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot
Edward Sylvester Ellis
High adventure and broad humor meet along the rocky coast of Maine, where a stolen motorboat and a case of mistaken identity test three loyal friends.
The Lost Trail
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A young minister’s wife is torn from her wilderness home by a vengeful stalker, launching a years-long search through the upper Mississippi Valley.
The Man Without a Memory
Arthur W. Marchmont
An downed Allied airman assumes a dead German’s identity, only to find himself trapped in a deadly web of Berlin espionage, romance, and wartime intrigue.
The Mate of the Good Ship York
William Clark Russell
A steady hand guides a abandoned merchant ship through a haunted ocean, where devotion and quick wits are the only safeguards against madness and the sea.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless
Allen Chapman
When four small-town teenagers construct home-made radio receiving sets, their new pastime plunges them straight into local rivalries, nighttime raids, and a search for a missing swindler.
The Scarlet Car
Richard Harding Davis
A wealthy young bachelor, his beloved, her pompous politician fiancé, and a reliable scarlet motorcar wind through the high-spirited realm of early-twentieth-century romance.
The Trail of the White Mule
B. M. Bower
A high-speed traffic chase in Los Angeles sends a battle-hardened old desert rat fleeing into the California backcountry, where he stumbles directly into an illicit moonshining ring—and into an undercover war he never intended to fight.
Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida
Kirk Munroe
When delicate health forces a New England family to trade icy winters for a remote Florida homestead, two children discover that taming the southern wilderness requires equal measures of hard work, courage, and curiosity.
Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier
Frances Trego Montgomery
A curious fox terrier with an appetite for mischief plunges his quiet village into chaos, turning everyday domestic routine into a series of frantic, slapstick misadventures.
Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure
Harry Collingwood
Washed overboard in a furious squall, a disgraced young sailor must navigate treacherous seas, murderous ship captains, and remote coral reefs to protect the woman he loves and clear his wrongfully tarnished name.
Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point
H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
A greenhorn entering West Point finds that the hardest battle is not against upperclassmen or exams, but against his own pride.
Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings
Dorothy Wayne
She steps into the surf to launch her skiff and ends up steering a heavy amphibian plane through a storm.
Fridtjof Nansen: A Book for the Young
Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull
A boy off the Norwegian coast learns to outlast freezing weather, master ski tracks, and trust his own judgment before leading men into uncharted white horizons.
In Caverns Below
Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz
A descent into a subterranean world turns into a sharp, satirical tour of human absurdity buried thousands of feet below the earth.
Menhardoc
George Manville Fenn
A high-spirited pair of town-bred twins spend a summer along the rugged Cornish coast, finding their soft manners tested by the sea, the mines, and a local boy who knows the water.
Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
A relentless push across frozen ocean leads, jagged pressure ridges, and howling Arctic blales leaves a team stranded at the edge of human reach.
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men: From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902
Louis Becke
Obstinate ocean captains face blinding squalls and hidden coral reefs in three vivid, true-to-life tales of maritime misadventure in the turn-of-the-century South Pacific.
Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus
Clive Phillipps-Wolley
A young traveler steps off the boat and marches straight into the muddy, frozen borderlands of the Russian Empire, rifle in hand, seeking real wilderness before the modern world can smooth it away.
The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure
Gustave Aimard
A shadow of violence falls across the vast Mexican wilderness, where wild animals and ruthless men make survival a daily gamble.
The Boy Allies Under the Sea
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Two young British officers navigate the treacherous, shadowed waters of the Great War, engaging in a high-stakes duel of wits and weaponry against German U-boats.
The conquest of the great Northwest, Volume 1 (of 2)
Agnes C. Laut
A vast, ice-choked bay becomes the arena where brave, desperate men risk everything to claim a frozen continent.
The Crimson Thread: An Adventure Story for Girls
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
A young retail clerk steps into a dark elevator shaft after hours and launches a whirlwind Christmas Eve chase across a frozen metropolis.
The Everlasting Whisper
Jackson Gregory
A woman who has lived for ease and admiration finds herself bound in marriage to a wilderness guide and stranded in the snow-bound Sierra Nevada.