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The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan
Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson
On a drafty hearth, domestic utensils and curious insects gather to swap wide-ranging tales of adventure, enchantment, and moral instruction.
The hermit hunter of the wilds
Gordon Stables
A boy leaves his Scottish home for a life at sea, braving mutiny, wild jungles, and shipwreck on a remote island before uncovering the fate of a lost friend.
The Ivory Trail
Talbot Mundy
A hunt for hidden treasure across East Africa sets four adventurers against German officers, ruthless rivals, and a unforgiving wilderness.
The land of hidden men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lost in the Cambodian jungle, a modern man steps through the green veil of the forest to find that the ancient Khmers never perished, but still wage their ancient, brutal dynastic wars.
The Log of a Privateersman
Harry Collingwood
Every stroke of luck on the high seas demands its price in blood, fire, and cold calculation.
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope': A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A seventeenth-century escape from the aftermath of Sedgemoor leads a young Hampshire runaway into a high-seas search for buried Spanish gold.
The Rival Campers Ashore
Ruel Perley Smith
A group of summer campers and local Maine youths become entangled in a land dispute, a long-hidden family exchange, and the dark secrets of a dilapidated local mill.
The Second String
Nat Gould
He left England as a failure, but out on the Australian coast he finds the grit to win back his life, his fortune, and his love.
Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
George Manville Fenn
The lush, dangerous jungles of the Malay Peninsula provide the backdrop for this tale of two young soldiers caught behind enemy lines. It is a brisk, action-oriented adventure that balances the grit of a survival story with the camaraderie of a colonial military outpost.
Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
Harry Collingwood
A storm off the Devon coast hurls two boyish friends into the wide world, launching an Elizabethan odyssey of captive voyages, Indian rituals, and hidden Inca gold.
Adventures in Wallypug-Land
G. E. (George Edward) Farrow
An ordinary visitor tumbles into a absurd, upside-down kingdom where logic is reversed, animals talk, and the monarch is treated worse than a servant.
Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol
Henry Harley Arnold
An army aviator drops his fishing pole to fight a forest fire and discovers that watching western timber from a cockpit is more dangerous than fighting over Europe.
Dave Porter's Great Search
Edward Stratemeyer
A brave young civil engineer braves western trails and desperate criminals to rescue the kidnapped girl he loves.
Dick Hamilton's Fortune
Howard Roger Garis
A high-spirited teenage heir must double a portion of his inheritance in twelve months—without losing his head or his heart to swindlers, tightfisted relatives, and terrible business ideas.
Down the Orinoco in a Canoe
Santiago Pérez Triana
A perilous escape transforms into a luminous voyage through the uncharted interior of South America.
Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four teenage friends set out on a summer walking tour across Long Island, encountering open roads, unexpected mishaps, and the quiet satisfaction of self-reliance.
Jack Harkaway in New York
Bracebridge Hemyng
A rich young Englishman and his eccentric companions cross the Atlantic to chase urban misadventures, blood feuds, and unlikely romance in Gilded Age New York.
John Holdsworth, Chief Mate
William Clark Russell
A violent shipwreck strips a chief mate of his identity, forcing him to navigate a strange, heartbreaking second life on dry land.
Kid Wolf of Texas: A Western Story
Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers
A roving gunfighter rides a white stallion through the lawless borderlands, meeting every violent ambush with cold precision, lightning draws, and quiet Southern courtesy.
Motor Matt's Air Ship
Stanley R. Matthews
An accidental roadside encounter with a runaway airship plunges a young athlete into a high-stakes duel between rival inventors and a gang of thieves.
Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters
Isabel Anderson
A young American woman flits through European high society, playing a dangerous game of flirtation until a mysterious prince turns out to be far more than a charming rogue.
The blind lion of the Congo
Elliott Whitney
A sick boy seeking health on a quick hunting trip is dragged into an ancient African mystery involving a legendary blind lion and a temple built of solid ivory.
The Hartley brothers
A. L. O. E.
Driven off course during a desert stopover, two missionary brothers endure capture, thirst, and grief in the Arabian sands before finding their faith vindicated in unexpected ways.
The Lady of the Ice: A Novel
James De Mille
A young British officer in garrisoned Quebec finds himself plunged into a tangle of mistaken identities, icy rescues, and frantic romantic scrapes.
The Missouri Outlaws
Gustave Aimard
Out on the wild Missouri border, an exiled European nobleman, a noble outlaw, and a squatter’s daughter navigate a treacherous frontier where honour and vengeance collide.
The Passing of Ku Sui
Anthony Gilmore
Beneath the airless void of space, a centuries-old feud reaches its violent climax in a clash between two legendary figures of the solar system.
The Peril Finders
George Manville Fenn
Gold in the mountains, ancient rock-hewn cities, and a perilous passage through the American wilderness call three fruit-growers and their sons away from their failing orchards.
The Phantom Yacht
Carol Norton
A trembling girl stands on a fog-choked shore, watching for a ghost ship that vanished decades ago.
The Ranch Girls in Europe
Margaret Vandercook
Four young women raised on a Montana ranch take a whirlwind tour of Europe, navigating high-society balls, ancient ruins, and complicated romantic attachments.
Bill Biddon, Trapper
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Two travelers find themselves thrust into a perilous wilderness where survival depends on the sharp instincts of a seasoned mountain man. Amidst the vast, untamed prairie, they must navigate the shifting loyalties of indigenous tribes and the raw dangers of the frontier.
Bob Chester's Grit
Frank V. Webster
Falsely accused by his guardian, a brave boy flees to the West, outsmarts conspirators, and reclaims his stolen fortune.
Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
This mystery centers on a group of young Cub Scouts whose innocent project on Navajo culture unexpectedly draws them into the affairs of three mysterious men. It is a brisk, earnest, and well-plotted adventure that captures the earnest spirit of mid-century youth fiction.
Hair Breadth Escapes: Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc
T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Survival at sea and in uncharted lands demands every ounce of human resilience, testing the boundary between self-preservation and complete moral collapse.
In the Days of Washington: A Story of the American Revolution
William Murray Graydon
The American Revolution serves as the backdrop for a tense, sprawling pursuit involving hidden identities, lost inheritances, and the struggle for personal and national liberty.
Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
A young girl’s journey from the familiar streets of Scotland to the rugged frontier of Australia unfolds into a test of character, courage, and unexpected friendship.
King Mombo
Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
The deep, tangled forests of equatorial Africa hold secrets of nature and human endurance, seen through the eyes of a traveler who finds wonder and danger in equal measure.
Letty and the Twins
Helen Sherman Griffith
Two adventurous twins spend a transformative summer at their grandparents’ farm, where they befriend a former circus performer seeking a new life.
Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch
Alice B. Emerson
A young woman’s summer vacation on a Montana cattle ranch turns into an unexpected rescue mission when she discovers a mysterious man hiding in an abandoned mine.
Tedric
E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
This story of a master blacksmith who defies his brutal, sacrifice-demanding gods offers a brisk, muscular blend of ancient-world grit and high-concept science fiction. It remains a notable relic of a foundational era in pulp storytelling.
The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary
Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
A vivid, unvarnished record of life on a trading schooner, this diary captures the strange, vanishing world of the South Sea Islands at the close of the nineteenth century through a keen, observant eye.
The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893)
John Bloundelle-Burton
A sweeping tale of high-seas adventure, this narrative bridges two centuries to recover a sunken Spanish fortune and settle a score with a murderous, long-forgotten pirate.
The Mississippi Saucer
Frank Belknap Long
A young shantyboat boy teasing riverboat captains with a bullfrog finds his humble life shattered when an otherworldly craft crashes into the Mississippi.
The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio
St. George Rathborne
HOOK Two brothers venture into the untamed Ohio wilderness, battling wolves, forest fires, and frontier enemies to secure a new home and restore their family's tarnished name.
The tale of Snowball Lamb
Arthur Scott Bailey
A spirited farmyard lamb stumbles into trouble when his eagerness to play with humans, tease his elders, and dodge farm chores leaves him standing out from the rest of the flock.
The Unpublishable Memoirs
A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) Rosenbach
These tales trace the exhilarating, often unscrupulous lives of bibliophiles who would risk social standing, personal relationships, and even legal peril to possess the world’s rarest literary treasures.
Three Sailor Boys
Verney Lovett Cameron
Three young sailors find themselves cast away in the Pacific after a sudden storm separates them from their cruel shipmates. They must rely on their own ingenuity, resourcefulness, and faith to survive the perils of isolation and hostile encounters.
Bob Hampton of Placer
Randall Parrish
The frontier is a place of harsh truths and hidden pasts, where a cynical gambler and a nameless girl must navigate a landscape of violence to find the truth of their own origins.
Indian and Scout: A Tale of the Gold Rush to California
F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
A young man wrongly accused of a crime flees across the American frontier, finding unlikely redemption and fortune amidst the perils of the gold rush.