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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

Maid Marian and Other Stories Selected from Robin Hood (1923)

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Stories from the Robin Hood legends.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton
Rowland Wheelwright

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Racundra’s First Cruise (1923)

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A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Arthur Ransome

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Racundra’s First Cruise (1923)

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A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Arthur Ransome

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Rejsen til Maanen (1923)

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Propelled from an enormous gun by a charge of gun cotton, a space capsule is hurled towards the moon. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Stories of the Vikings (1923)

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Tales of adventure founded on the Snorra, an Icelandic work from around 1225 A.D. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Maurice Dunlap
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Story of a Bad Boy (1923)

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The story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights include the snowball battle on Slater’s Hill and the celebration of the glorious 4th.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Harold M. Brett

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1923)

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Loosely based on his own adventures, Herman Melville here tells the story of two American sailors who jump ship on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and spend four months with the natives. While roundly condemned as fictitious at the t... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1923)

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This novel of a mutiny aboard a ship bound for the Bermudas is often confused with an account of the actual sinking of a merchant ship off southern Africa in which, while most of the crew and passengers made it safely to land, the vast majority died ... View More

Author(s): W. Clark Russell
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)

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In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Jim Davis (1924)

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Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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King Arthur and His Knights (1924)

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This version of the story of King Arthur is taken from Malory by an expert in medieval literature.

Author(s): Philip Schuyler Allen
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill
Mead Schaeffer

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Legends of Charlemagne (1924)

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A collection of romances from medieval and renaissance Europe.

Author(s): Thomas Bulfinch
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, a Sequel to Typee (1924)

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In this sequel to Typee, the narrator is taken off the island by a whaleman, but soon discovers the captain and mate are incompetent. Along with most of the crew he jumps ship in Tahiti and is briefly jailed as a mutineer. On his release he bums abou... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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The Paid Piper (1924)

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The adventures of a tramp among high and low.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Sard Harker (1924)

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Sard Harker sets out to do a good deed for two fellow Englishmen and soon finds himself kidnapped and forced to wander about Santa Barbara. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Sard Harker (1924)

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Sard Harker sets out to do a good deed for two fellow Englishmen and soon finds himself kidnapped and forced to wander about Santa Barbara.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Wings of the Morning (1924)

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Miss Iris Deane is shipwrecked in the South China Sea along with the only other survivor, Robert Jenks, a cashiered British army officer who was working as a steward. The J.C. Winston edition has eleven color plates, the Doran edition only eight, but... View More

Author(s): Louis Tracy
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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The Deerslayer (1925)

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While written last, in 1841, The Deerslayer is chronologically the first in the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumpo, a European raised among American Indians, is the hero of the series. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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A Dog of Flanders (1925)

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Nello, a Belgian orphan rescues a dog and names it Patrasche. Together they start a milk delivery service.

Author(s): Maria Louise Ramé
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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In the Endless Sands: a Christmas Book for Boys and Girls (1925)

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A boy is lost in the North African desert, and taken in by the Arabs.

Author(s): Cyril Kay-Scott
Evelyn Scott
Illustrator(s): Owen Merton

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