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Adventure Genre
Genre description for the 'Adventure' Genre. Full text description would go here to introduce the genre before showing a complete list of all the books in that genre.
Books in the Adventure genre:
Drake’s Quest (1927)
The swashbuckling adventures of Sir Francis Drake.
Author(s):
Cameron Rogers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The House on the Cliff (1927)
Frank and Joe Hardy are following in the footsteps of their famous father.
Author(s):
Franklin W. Dixon
Illustrator(s):
None
Michael Strogoff A Courier of the Czar (1927)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Midnight Folk (1927)
Kay Harker must battle his wicked governess and her coven to find the long lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the aid of the Midnight Folk.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
None
The Midnight Folk (1927)
Kay Harker must battle his wicked governess and her coven to find the long lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the aid of the Midnight Folk. This is the signed limited edition.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
None
The Splendid Spur (1927)
A picaresque tale of English civil war.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Story of a Bad Boy (1927)
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s):
Edwin John Prittie
The Trade Wind (1927)
A spirited New England lad finds adventure and romance during his attempt to render a mysterious service to his country in the days just before the American Revolution.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The White Company (1927)
Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Caravans to Santa Fe (1928)
When Steven undertakes to deliver a letter from New Orleans to Santa Fe, he hopes for adventure - and find it.
Author(s):
Alida Sims Malkus
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians (1928)
Three Chippewa children captured by the Sioux escape to warn their tribe of an imminent raid by their enemy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
The Conquest of Montezuma’s Empire (1928)
Author(s):
William Hickling Prescott
Minnie Wright
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Count of Monte Cristo (1928)
Author(s):
Alexandre Dumas
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The Daughter of the Hawk (1928)
Dawkins has escaped from a convict labor camp on an island in the south seas and returns home to find more than he bargained for.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Drums (1928)
This is the story of Johnny Fraser and his part in the Revolutionary War in the South.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Boyd
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
En Garde! (1928)
A rousing adventure novel set in seventeenth century France with plenty of sword play.
Author(s):
Samuel Morse
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Aitken
Hugh Gwyeth (1928)
A romance of the English Civil War.
Author(s):
Beulah Marie Dix
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Longshanks (1928)
Tad Hopkins is on his way downriver to New Orleans to meet his father when he is unceremoniously tossed into the river by a thief. He is rescued by a young flatboat man - Abe Lincoln.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward C. Caswell
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1928)
This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
John Rae
Frank Schoonover