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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:
Liang & Lo (1930)
Liang and Lo set out on the back of Lo’s water buffalo to slay the dragon.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1930)
Author(s):
R. D. Blackmore
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
More To and Again (1930)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Rustam: Lion of Persia (1930)
A retelling of the Persian epic concerning the knight paladin Rustam from the Shahnameh or Book of Kings of Ferdowsi, written around 1000 A.D.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Salute to Adventurers (1930)
Adventures of a Scotch lad in Virginia in the early days of colonization.
The cover image shown above is from the 1915 edition.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Story of Roland (1930)
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
The Twilight of Magic (1930)
The twins, Giles and Anne, with assistance of Agnes the Applewoman come to the aid of the King.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Away to Sea (1931)
Jim Slater ran away from his father’s farmhouse to become a sailor. Later, he discovered he was aboard a slave ship.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Clinton Balmer
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1931)
Author(s):
John Fox, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Midnight Folk (1931)
Kay Harker must fight his evil governess and her coven to recover the lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the assistance of the Midnight Folk.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Rowland Hilder
Odysseus: Sage of Greece (1931)
A retelling of the Odyssey.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Omnibus Jules Verne (1931)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Oregon Trail (1931)
Francis Parkman took a tour of the West before settling down to write his histories. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Pirate’s Loot (1931)
Pirates and treasure for younger readers.
Author(s):
Carolyn Rodgers
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Roving Lobster (1931)
Author(s):
Arthur Mason
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Sir Nigel (1931)
Tells of the youth and young manhood of the commander of The White Company.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Story of Siegfried (1931)
A retelling of the Norse and German myths of the hero warrior Siegfried.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
U 97 (1931)
At the time of the Cuxhaven mutiny, a German U-boat attempts to attack the British grand fleet at Scapa Flow. A play in three acts.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Willow Whistle (1931)
Mary Anne’s father opens a general store on the prairie. Her friend Eric teaches her to make willow whistles.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith