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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:
Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel (1935)
Apprentice seaman Dick Pomfret takes command of his aging clipper when she is caught in a Pacific storm.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Kenneth Shoesmith
Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel (1935)
Apprentice seaman Dick Pomfret takes command of his aging clipper when she is caught in a Pacific storm.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Kenneth Shoesmith
All the Mowgli Stories (1936)
Mowgli was lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. This is a collection of short stories about him.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Book of Cowboys (1936)
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
The General (1936)
A stinging indictment of the British military culture that led to the wanton slaughter of World War I.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
The General (1936)
A stinging indictment of the British military culture that led to the wanton slaughter of World War I.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Salomon and Joseph Abbey
Great Kipling Stories Together with a Life of Rudyard Kipling (1936)
A selection of Rudyard Kipling’s greatest short stories and poems.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Hurricane (1936)
The story of a hurricane that strikes a south Pacific island.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936)
Tim runs away to sea and has many adventures before he is safe on land again.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Man from the Norlands (1936)
Sir Richard Hannay gathers his old comrades to assist ‘the man from the Norlands’ to rescue his daughter.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Plouf, the Little Wild Duck (1936)
The story of a duck as he grows up during the summer and migrates in the fall.
Sheep Kings (1936)
As the bottom drops out of the market for wool, Valentine and her father struggle to keep their ranch going.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
None
The Story of Freginald (1936)
Freginald joins the Boomschmidt Circus and meets fellow poet Freddy the pig. Together they solve a mystery and save the Circus.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Story Parade A Collection of Modern Stories for Boys and Girls (1936)
Trap-Lines North (1936)
Based on the true adventures of Jim Vanderbeck this book tells the story of his winter on the trapline.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Jim Vanderbeck
Illustrator(s):
Enos Comstock
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1937)
Norman Rockwell did the illustrations for this edition of the classic American story of growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Norman Rockwell
And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937)
Beat to Quarters (1937)
Captain Horatio Hornblower of the Lydia defeats the Spanish Natividad -- twice.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Bruin the Brown Bear (1937)
Twin bear cubs learn the business of being a bear from their mother and older brother.
Author(s):
Lily Duplaix
Lida
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
Dou Dou Flies Away (1937)
A small shepherdess visits the African jungle and befriends the animals.
Author(s):
A. Boursier-Mougenot
Illustrator(s):
A. Boursier-Mougenot