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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:
Me and Henry and the Artillery (1928)
An account of two artillery men in the closing days of the World War I on the western front.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
None
Mutiny Island (1928)
The captain and crew of the Splendid Dawn are marooned on Mutiny Island after they are captured by tender-hearted pirates.
Author(s):
Charles M. Bennett
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Robin Hood (1928)
A retelling of the adventures of Robin Hood based on the history and real life of the people of his time, including their Catholic faith.
Author(s):
Edith Heal
Illustrator(s):
Dan Content
The Shadow of the Hawk (1928)
Having just escaped from an island prison more deadly than Devil’s Island, Dawkins knew better than to get involved with young Nina, but finds it impossible to resist.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)
Author(s):
Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn
The White Company (1928)
A group of English men at arms follow Sir Nigel during the hundred years war to France and Spain.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Wonderful Locomotive (1928)
Peter takes Old 44 on her last magical transcontinental run from New York to San Francisco and back in six days.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Brown on Resolution (1929)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Ellis Silas
Courageous Companions (1929)
The story of an English lad who sails with Magellan around the world.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Odyssey of Homer (1929)
This prose translation of the Odyssey aims to convey the full force of the Greek original.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Shopping Guide to Paris (1929)
Definitely a pre-crash book for the wealthy American abroad.
Author(s):
Louise Bonney
Thérèse Bonney
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Single-Handed (1929)
On the desolate Galapagos island of Resolution, Leading Seaman Albert Brown ties down a German cruiser.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
The Three Musketeers (1929)
Author(s):
Alexandre Dumas
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed (1930)
Author(s):
Henry Chapin
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Adventures of Mario (1930)
Mario, the young hero of the book, helpless after the death of his mother and driven by an inner force as the animals are, grows up in the depths of the forest where he becomes one of the wild things.
Author(s):
Waldemar Bonsels
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Annie Marble in Germany (1930)
The author of the Hornblower saga takes a motor boat on the German inland waterways.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Children of the New Forest (1930)
A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Emil and the Detectives (1930)
Author(s):
Erich Kästner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Trier
The Flight of the Heron (1930)
Ewen Cameron is out with the ’45 and encounters a British officer Keith Windham who becomes his best friend.
Author(s):
D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Floating Island (1930)
The Doll family is shipwrecked on a desert island.
Author(s):
Anne Parrish
Illustrator(s):
Anne Parrish